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An important area for psychoanalytic study is the significance for intra-psychic life of important events taking place in the community of which analyst and analysand are a part. September 11, 2001 provides a vantage point for examination of questions that arise from looking at the interrelationship between current environment and intrapsychic life. Two cases are presented as a focus for discussing the interaction of the memorialized past and occurrences in present reality, the significance for an analysis of analyst and patient sharing the same experience, instigations to progress
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Peter B. Neubauer, whose contributions were integral and vital to our work as a group. We were deeply influenced by him; his clarity of thinking and his urge to explore new concepts made this study a unique experience. We are profoundly indebted to Peter for sharing himself with us in taking on this topic.
This project was funded by the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund, Inc.
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 65, ed. Robert A. King, Samuel Abrams, A. Scott Dowling, and Paul M. Brinich (Yale University Press, copyright © 2011 by Robert A. King, Samuel Abrams, A. Scott Dowling, and Paul M. Brinich).
that a current event may provide and the ways in which communal experience influences intrapsychic life. As apart of the discussion, we ask as well in what ways a common experience may be shared, and the significance of radically different meanings that the same event may have for analyst and analysand. We also pose the question whether the differences and similarities, each in their own way, may serve as progressive forces in the analysis.