Love, Dissociation, and Discipline in the Analytic Process

Author: Roggero M. Pia  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 1048-1885

Source: Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol.15, Iss.5, 2005-10, pp. : 735-738

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Abstract

This case provides a delicate approach to vital purpose, unconscious pattern, and “emotion recollected in tranquility.” The author defines, the “paradoxical analytic triangle” to which Pizer refers, as a human quality, an unprecedented level of understanding and comprehension, that lets analyst and patient recognize their own dependence on the object. In so doing, they both gain a quality of presence through recovering the projections that they have attributed to the object. Four aspects are considered important steps leading to this human quality within the analytic process: dissociation leading to impasse; sensibility opening to countertransference; recollection in tranquility leading to self-reflexivity; and the patient’s “vital purpose”—the most salient aspect (the lighthouse) of the whole project.