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One thing I noticed about certain of my free drawings was that they were somehow bogus and demanded to be torn up as soon as they were made. They were the kind in which a scribble turned into a recognizable object too soon, as it were; the lines drawn would suggest some object and at once I would develop it to make it look like that object. It seemed almost as if, one could not bear the chaos and uncertainty about what was emerging long enough, as if one had to turn the scribble into some recognizable whole when in fact the thought or mood seeking expression had not yet reached that stage. And the result was a sense of false certainty, a compulsive and deceptive sanity, a tyrannical victory of the common sense view which always sees objects as objects, but at the cost of something else that was seeking recognition, something more to do with imaginative than common sense reality.
When two personalities meet, an emotional storm is created.
Psychoanalysis has, since its inception, wrestled with how to systematically listen for and represent the disavowed. Ogden (2005) formulates the analyst's task as “participating in dreaming the patient's undreamt and interrupted dreams” (p. 2). Such an endeavor inevitably involves contact with raw and unarticulated dimensions of both parties. Both will have to contend with their respective fantasies about what such contact with “undreamt dreams and interrupted cries” might entail (p. 1).