ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors discuss the problem of inner relations within the opposition of history/geography, also arriving from an apparently totally different direction, from considerations on the relations between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and on the distinction between them. The work of psychotherapy with a few weekly sessions must be based largely on the use of secondary thought on the part of the analyst, with a consequent “historiography” rather than a “geography” of the patient. A psychoanalyst attends to the mapping of the inner world. The concept of the “patient’s history”, falls within psychoanalysis as therapy: but it also concerns the theory of the structure or function of the personality. If the analyst the understanding of the personality and mental functioning of an individual patient passes through something that can be compared to the creation of a galactic map in continual evolution.
