Volume 64 (2023), Edition 2

Knowledge arising from the clinician’s bodily sensations and visual imagination are considered through a clinical example where disruption to the setting culminated in the psychotherapist developing temporarily incapacitating physical symptoms in...

Analytic awareness of the process of meaning-making involves tracking premonitions and intuitions to their sources. As precursors of symbolic processing, premonitions are essential elements in any relationship, including the analytic relationship....

In this essay we take up two related questions facing us in everyday, contemporary analytic practice: How can we grasp what we don’t know? How can something new come into being through the analytic encounter? We approach both questions from within...

Intuition, which is widely defined by Kant’s definition as the contact with reality without the brokerage of rational thinking, was brought back by Bion to the psychoanalytic vocabulary. The present paper focuses on Bion’s term of intuition as...

In this paper I will try to show how the chimera, as I understand it, is the result of an unsettling encounter between the traumatic traces of the two protagonists, culminating in a process of reverie, a process, indeed, of hallucinatory emergence,...

The development of perception and the experience of space are investigated through dreams and psychotic states in which interior and exterior spaces are mixed and disrupted. For this purpose, reference is made to the concepts of Euclidean and...

One essential albeit often neglected aspect of dreams is that we dream in images. Freud repeatedly emphasized the hallucinatory quality of dream images: the dreamer does not see the images, but experiences them. Without the experiential character of...