ABSTRACT
Illusioning and disillusioning, constructionist and deconstructionist, identifying and disidentifying, gnostic and agnostic elements are necessary in analytic psychotherapy, which must provide the conditions under which analysis may become possible. With more disturbed and highly resistant patients the use of non-rational techniques of mirroring and joining the resistance may be necessary means to the ultimate end of rational analysis, provided the empathically immersed analyst does not succumb to projective counter-identification, remaining trapped in the Lacanian Imaginary and never making it back to the Symbolic.
