Il contro-transfert (equazione personale) dell’analista, interferenze nel processo psicoanalitico, repressione, nevrosi sociale. Visione condivisa e osservazione scientifica, analisi sociale e nevrosi sociale.

The author traces the development of the concept of counter-transference in psychotherapeutic theory technique and attempts to highlight the theoretical motivations, beginning from Freud and continuing with the schools of thought that came after him, underlying the modifications and extensions suggested to “correct” the very nature of the conceptualization of counter-transference. The second part of the article reviews the points of view of two contemporary authors, Jacobs and Renik, who in their own distinctive ways and with different stresses, have actively put forward innovative points of view for the understanding of this concept. An assessment on Renik’s positions brings the author to his own considerations on the intersubjective point of view, which has strongly asserted itself in recent years.

The hypothesis of this work is that the psychic life is marked from the beginning by the exposure to a Real that is by definition extraneous, uncanny, undomesticated and not subjective. In some circumstances the quota of Real exceeds that which is sustainable for the subject, in such a way that contact with this Real assumes traumatic connotations. This gives rise to a primary experience of “defencelessness”, “Bare Life” according to some of today’s philosophy. From this basic experience, that can be assimilated only in part to the Freudian Hilflosigkeit, the drive to merge with the other originates in the attempt to recuperate the state of indifferent well-being/bliss, similar to that described by Winnicott, brutally interrupted by trauma. The attempt to “make whole” with the other assumes various forms, from that described and called by the Italian psychoanalyst Elvio Fachinelli as “co-identity”, to one that tends toward an actual fall from boundaries, inducing con-fusion of identities between patient and analyst. In the present work, these psychic movements are traced in the dynamic of transference and counter-transference and are illustrated with the evidence of a clinical case.

Transference is the therapist’s hypothesis that the patient perceives, imagines, knows him, – the analyst, – not as he is in the actual psychoanalytic situation, but as other fictional persons were in the patient’s past history. Conversely, counter-transference is the therapist’s hypothesis that his own feelings, perceptions, imaginations do not belong to his actual self, but are derivatives of the experiences of his past elicited by the patient. The two hypotheses construct a possible world inhabited by disidentical persons, such as a therapist who is not what he is and is what he is not, while seeing a patient who is also not what he is and is what he is not. The phenomenon of disidentity shock is characterized by a set of feelings of surprise, uncertainty, confusion, bewilderment, which can arise anywhere, every time you open the door expecting a known person and see an unknown one. From this point of view, psychoanalysis is not the endeavor to transform disidentity into identity, but the ability to tolerate the uncertainty of disidentity. The authors distinguish two types of disidentity, diachronic disidentity, as in the example of saint Paul, and synchronic disidentity, as in the example of Dorian Gray. In the paper, two clinical vignettes illustrate these concepts, also in the light of tense logic and of modal figures.

1. Jung’s View of the Unconscious. 2. Notes on the Symbolic Function. 3. The Spatiotemporal Unfolding of a Scene. Sandplay method: visual representation of indistinct but operative emotions, their symbolic expression, the spatiotemporal organization of experience, relating the conscious-unconscious, the known- unknown, the rational-irrational dimensions. Sandplay like a “facilitator”: a clinical sketch.

1. The Mise-en-scéne Reviewed. 2. Final Notes. Patient sand scene building: sequence of gestures, verbal level, analyst’s counter-transference, the analyst opportunity to really “see” a veritable “tale” telling the patient’s inner experience.

1. The Objects and Their Relationships. To re-examine scenes built during therapy as a path carrying new discoveries: the overdetermination of the symbolic process, the forms chosen at the construction time, objects and characters meaningful analogies of the affective dynamics between the analytic couple. Objects, feelings, and words in a complex tale that represents the patient life.

1. Per introdurre. 2. Alberto. 3. Di una supervisione trasgressiva. 4. Di sogni simmetrici o della sincronicità. 5. Di un “gioco per schizofrenici”… o dello Spirito della bottiglia. 6. Di un addio (che in realtà non si rivelerà tale). 7. Infine: di una schizofrenia e dei suoi teatri. L’inenarrabilità e l’irrappresentabilità, diffusamente ritenute emblematiche dell’essere al mondo dello schizofrenico, sono dati fenomenici apodittici o lasciano spazio a comprensibilità e dinamismo? Il calore cui viene esposto il terapeuta è un fuoco che non può che bruciare chi si appressa, o è l’unica condizione da sperimentare per generare trasformazioni significative? Un’articolata esperienza clinica: il tema dell’Umwelt, la nascita delle rappresentazioni mentali, una schizofrenia, l’apporto del Gioco della Sabbia, una supervisione in corso, scelte senz’altro eterodosse.