Change and "potential space" (Benedetti/Ferro)

We will present three clinical cases in which the movements of the analytic couple allows to promote the change, within the "potential space" represented by the analytics session, through associations that follow the lines of... [ view full abstract ]

We will present three clinical cases in which the movements of the analytic couple allows to promote the change, within the "potential space" represented by the analytics session, through associations that follow the lines of the oneiric activity/ job, as Freud describes it. 

Thus analyst and patient, they dream of each other, going back in this way regressively and recurrently  to a primitive and profoundly transformative object relation.

"The  transferal language becomes " musical language " and " poetic ", if the

human creativity appears  like  to re-create what , deposited in the implicit memory , is not subject to recollection

M. Mancia (2004) report this particular coloring of analytical experience talking about "musicality of the transference". S. Bolognini describes "rare moments of a happy and privileged circumstance of affection, imagination and thought ..." (2002). C. Botella (2004) analyses the "regressing  function”  through which the analyst can access the "psychic  conceivability".

T. Ogden: "Saying" sometimes we must interpret this patient behavior  as his need to be known in all its parts by one person: the analyst. "

Winnicot is using the word "to interpret " meaning not to give verbal interpretations to the patient, but simply being uninterruptedly  that human space in which the patient becomes complete/healthy [...]

The container is not a thing but a path. It's the ability of doing  the unconscious job of dreaming, working in conjunction with the ability of thinking like in a preconscious dream (reverie) and the ability of a secondary process more entirely conscious. Although all three types of thought-dream unconscious, preconscious  reverie and conscious reflection -are involved in the mental function of containment, Bion sees the unconscious  work of dreaming as a work which is of primary importance in giving rise to effective change and psychological growth. "

(T. Ogden)