Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Lilia Utizi
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/1
Language Italian Pages 8 P. 177-184 File size 159 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2023-001012
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The present work concerns the author’s contro-transfert and a dream she had after the first meetings with a patient, who required psychotherapy for problems of obsessiveness tending towards deliri-um. When Marta arrives in the study, she seems almost frozen, stuck in her own cocoon, a psychopathological envelope, like the larval stage of a chrysalis. From the very first sessions, phases of impotence and disintegration begin through contro-transfert s-sights. Dream and contro-transfert, processing tools that break the bounda-ries between sleep and wakefulness, make the unrepresentable relata-ble: a necessary step so that Marta can move towards a rebirth in the most beautiful shape of her. The work and strength of the unconscious impose themselves from the very first moments, capturing the therapist in an inner chaos where the dream and the dreaming together, like in the stage of quiescence of the chrysalis, initiate the metamorphosis and the transformation of the caterpillar into a splendid butterfly. A transition to a new phase of existence that the author herself will recognize with the progress of her continuous training: an interchange between inside and outside, which, through bonds, opens towards new movements of thought and new senses.
Keywords: contro-transfert, dream, representation, analysis of the Self.
Lilia Utizi, La Crisalide Marta in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 1/2023, pp 177-184, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2023-001012