Editorial

The main direction of the Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis' current issue could have as its goal thinking as a whole, the ineffability that is created before the emotional bond of the therapeutic alliance and has its roots in the very concept of resonance, from unconscious to unconscious, analytical function and auxiliary mind. To build as a whole with your patient, for your patient, in his place, to fill in gaps of emotion or artistic gaps, an artist of “mud” or of hope, of good or evil. There are relationships that feed on the “abyss” of the unconscious, just as there are relationships that feed on the hopes and expectations of the future. Daniela Irimia's article explores concepts such as the emotional truth recognized in collusion, the clarity of fantasy, which has an immense accuracy in psychoanalytic moments, and the mechanism of projection, as Donnel Stern himself confesses: “We all need a witness to become a self”. Witness neutrality is a timeless and asymmetrical concept, depending on the moment and the circumstance, as well as the red thread of the labyrinth of one's own paradoxical thinking in the relational field.

The pandemic makes us rediscover the trauma of disease, when the topicality of Ferenczi's Clinical Diary acquires subliminal meanings or reaches the dominant intensity of the field of consciousness, because we all have moments of denial and emphasis, derived from a narcissistic-paranoid sanogenic hypostasis, when the reality of an organic illness cannot hurt you. Or moments when your own somatic vulnerability or psychological fragility imprints the psychodynamics of the self, while your personality changes, like the blood that must always be infused, to participate in the Heraclitean flow of life. The model of Ferenczi's trauma in the pandemic creates vigilance, while also raising creativity to the rank of virtue. The terrorism of suffering is intertwined with masochism, as Gabriela Romaneț explains in her article. Dissociation takes a