ABSTRACT
One way to express an emotion is to discover a corresponding image that gives shape to the feeling. At times, from a state of reverie, one may receive an image during a session that comes up suddenly and has a strong sense of truth in itself. In reverie, there is a strong connection between sense impressions and images. A perception that hits our senses, to paraphrase Grotstein, causes a something that will become a thought. The word personification indicates a phenomenon by which a member of the analytic couple receives and unifies chaotic, not yet mentalized emotional elements which take place in the analytic field. Transforming sensations into images, and using the author hallucinatory capacity were two elements that helped the author most during Iris's analysis. The parental couple relationship deeply marked both Iris's life and her mother's, causing an existential impasse in which the range of emotions ran from silence and secrecy to rage.
