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Siempre que te pregunto
Que, cuándo, cómo y dónde
Tu siempre me respondes
Quizás, quizás, quizás
Yasí pasan los días
Yyo, desesperando
Y tu, tu contestando
quizás, quizás, quizás.2
Every analysis involves a conflict between the patient’s and the analyst’s methods of cure, and a conflict about who needs treatment. For the patient, at the most basic level, it is always the object who needs changing in order to cure the patient from her suffering. All patients have become ill through excessive use of pathological methods of self-cure; and in the process of analysis, all patients will need to make their analysts ‘ill’ through unconsciously infecting them with their own kind of psychic experience. Cure by insight will be for most patients a (painfully and gradually) acquired taste.
The patient I am going to discuss came to analysis because her method of self-cure wasn’t working as well as she needed it to. Her method was an addiction to pathological romantic daydreaming: an addiction to fake-true-love. She found, unconsciously, that she needed another person, in external reality, to provide an essential ingredient to perpetuate her otherwise excellent method for alleviating psychic
pain: she needed an analyst for a particular role in her unconscious phantasy.