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I would like to point out that this interesting initiative of commenting on a text which refers in detail to the progression of the analytic process, as recorded by the analyst, offers the opportunity for a fertile exchange of views in terms of both theory and technique. The aim is to think upon the material and be given the opportunity to construct a more comprehensive view and understanding. In any case, we know that, ever since the first psychoanalysts in Vienna created working groups to discuss psychoanalytic material, the interpretation of one analyst has never been exactly the same as that of another. Even so, there has been general agreement with regard to the psychoanalytic process.
In the ‘clinical material’ there is some evidence mentioned that leads us to form a hypothesis about the psychic processes of the analysand, most prominently the antagonism toward a ‘mother’ who is powerful and controlling while she herself remains in the shadows. It is not clear if the rivalry is connected to oedipal conflict or sibling rivalry, in which siblings of the same age vie for the love of the mother.
Session 1: In this session, what initially made an impression on me is the narcissistic mother-daughter relationship, and consequently the narcissistic pathology. The mother sees her as an extension of herself and exhibits her as a phallus of her own. Following this line of reasoning, we can assume that, for the analysand, too, her body may be symbolic of the phallus. The extreme