Beauty requires good form, but good form is not enough to define beauty. Accounting for what is missing is the reason for
this work. To this end, the Freudian theory of the origin of the self is reviewed, proposing the notion of primordial imago as
its initial configuration, typical of the phase of primary narcissism and prior to the appearance of any differentiated object,
which it only knows because of that—and here the Gestalt theory is introduced —the dialectic of figure and ground. It is
thus maintained that the first form, the first imago —constituted in the manner of a generalized synesthesia of the maternal
imago associated with the experience of original satisfaction—, by constituting the first experience of desire, constitutes, in
turn, the paradigm of b eauty. And the prestige of t he circle, which is thus explained in psychoanalytic terms.