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The author analyzes the route through which psychoanalysis has reached the “relational field of the couple, the emotional forces underlying group life and transgenerational transmission.” She inquires into the idea of the individual mind as a structure on its own and into the experience of self as the making of an individual subject.
Before considering these subjects through clinical exemplification, she provides a clear, useful illustration of the theory which guides her work in the session. Realization of the unpredictability of the events taking place in analytic work becomes evident. Analytic work is comprehensible only in a dyadic dimension. Moreover, it becomes clear that the analyst has a responsible role in the analytic process, through continuous symmetries and asymmetries with the patient.
The role of the oneiric work as a guarantee of the individual elaboration of subjective routes and meanings, eventually obscured or abused by meeting the Other, is highlighted. The research perspective the author tries to develop is ultimately Bionian: psychoanalysis contributes to the fight for expanding the mind, against tensions which pull toward an explosive solution of it.