Continuity and Discontinuity in the therapy session: the delays

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Maria N. Mosca
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/2 Language Italian
Pages 8 P. 91-98 File size 202 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2021-002006
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The work aims to bring attention back to clinical aspects, such as "delays in the terapy session", in light of the concepts of analytical continuity and discontinuity. It is asserted that analytic continuity is marked by the discontinuous and the discrete, as for example in the breaking of the setting. A clinical vignette is taken into consideration in which the patient delays before starting the session. That is to say that within the time of the session he spends this time outside the setting, in an "other place". Following the concepts of Continuous and Discrete in psychoanaly-sis, several authors propose a model of exploration of psychic func-tioning. In this research context, the distinction is made between Rela-tion and Relationship, equivalent to the distinction of Continu-ous/Relation (and discontinuous) and Discrete/Relationship. The ana-lytic relation is about continuity in its function. The Reality e as well as the Relationscip would be part of the discrete-concrete, and would take the upper hand in the ruptures of the setting, as can be seen from the clinical reference.

Keywords: continuity, discontinuity, the discrete-concrete, acting aut, breaking of the setting, delays in the session, acting out representation, matter and symbol.

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Maria N. Mosca, Continuità e Discontinuità in seduta: i ritardi in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 2/2021, pp 91-98, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2021-002006