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This number of the RJP focuses on a rather special issue not so specific for the psychoanalytic field, but relevant for a lot of psychoanalytic topics - The Secret.
First, Marilia Aisenstein's paper tackles the difficult problem of psychosomatic pathologies, proposing that, in this case, the secret is about what lies behind the symptom, and it is related to the traumatic excess of narcissistic losses which exceeded the mind's capacity to symbolize.
In the next paper, Paolo Fonda expands on the interesting topic of fusion in a second part of the paper started in the previous issue of the RJP, and conveys the existence of a border system functioning on the dialectic between fusion and separation. As analysts, it is good to also keep that in mind when choosing the appropriate type of interpretation - symbolic or on relational level.
Bogdan Cuc makes a review of the main areas where the secret is to be found in psychoanalytic practice: the unconscious secret of the self to be revealed (and made true), the professional secret to be kept regarding the patient's analysis, the patient's secrets in analysis (from the analyst, but also from himself), or the secret suffering hidden in the symptom.
In the next paper, Milagros Cid Sanz deepens those various facets of the secret in psychoanalysis, secrets to be tolerated (the unspoken discourse or the latent content of patient's speech), or confessed (like a gift for the analyst), or retained (like a treasure). We learn about the structuring function of the secret and the danger of AI technology for our secret personal life.
‘To know, or not to know’ is a key-issue about the secret's topic and, in her paper, Georgiana Dobrescu reveals the link between some contents of