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Even poor Mademoiselle Dombreuil, by dint of functioning as lightning conductor, was drawn into the turbid and laughing vortex, just as psychiatrists become infected and succumb to the frenzies of their patients.
… the analyst becomes the patient, espouses his delusional system. … good criticism involves a willingness, a desire, to enter into the delusional system of texts, to espouse their hallucinated vision, in an attempt to master and be mastered by their power of conviction.
Othello: Put out the light, and then put out the light. / If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, / I can again thy former light restore. / … I will kill thee / and love thee after. … / . … This sorrow's heavenly, / it strikes where it doth love.
Freud (1915) had good reason to warn us to be careful how we behave with our analysands. That warning led, however, to too much pressure on us to stifle our needs, temptations, and feelings in work with our patients, lest they get out of hand. As a result, we analysts have long struggled for the freedom to use ourselves more fully, more comfortably, in