ABSTRACT
In a Friday session, Frannie describes her experience sitting in church and experiencing a deep sense of conrmation that she should choose a road of adventure, pursuing an opportunity to do important, needed work in a foreign country where she has developed relationships with church personnel and health care providers who have beneted from and would continue to benet from her presence and contributions to their work of bringing badly needed services to the community there. is decision comes within the context of her having a lover abroad and the painful conict she experiences over her ambivalence about divorcing her husband. at decision is occurring within a cultural history constituted as part of a religious Catholic family where pleasure and wrongness are too frequently conated and which conation totally obscures questions of agency and vitality. What kind of response does Frannie expect this statement will trigger from her analyst and with what signicance to her own subjectivity? What does this decision have to do with her marital diculties and how she experiences my responses to these? How might my personal history and marital status be aecting her or my subjective experience of this moment? How might each of these considerations
be related to Frannie’s experience of the impact of her passion and the dierent cultures through which she has been commuting?
