AbstractThis article explores how an infant might represent object‐related, interpersonal experience. To be clinically relevant, our exploration is limited to goal‐directed, motivated behavior. We propose that motives—as enacted and subjectively experienced—result in a unit of ongoing subjective experience called an “emergent moment.” We suggest that such “moments” are represented in at least six separate, parallel, basic schematic formats: sensorimotor schemas; perceptions; concepts; scripts; “temporal feeling shapes”; and “protonarrative envelopes.” The temporal feeling shape is proposed as a format for representing affects. And the protonarrative envelope is proposed as a format for representing the global experience in a narrative‐like form. All six schematic formats, taken together, comprise a network of schemas that we call the “schema‐of‐being‐with.”.An extended clinical example is given of the different “schemas‐of‐being‐with‐a‐depressed‐mother” that generally form and become clinically imp