To date, however, the problem of the nemo and its existence as a somatic fact of human life has not, at least in theoretical terms, been the territory of the historian (a major omission, in my view), but principally of the psychologist. In particular, the analysis of human ontology and ontogeny in terms of a gap, or fundamental psychic break, is the principal contribution of a number of French scholars, such as Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Henri Wallon (dealt with later on in this chapter), as well as of the so-called British "object-relations school," which includes analysts such as Michael Balint and Donald Winnicott (Ronald Laing' s teacher and therapist). This "nemological" approach was also picked up by the Hungarian anthropologist Géza Róheim, whose book The Origin and Function of Culture was a path-breaking attempt to interpret human culture in these terms.