ABSTRACT
This chapter explores landmark contribution, one that should be read and studied by all analysts who work with seriously disturbed individuals, especially those patients who have suffered from severe, soul-destroying emotional deprivation in childhood. Those colleagues, who hold to the intrapsychic view, such as Kleinian analysts and traditional Freudians, believe that while the environment is important and clearly affects the developing child, what is key in the creation of pathology is the child’s inner response to and fantasies about his object world. First and foremost, Dr Franco Borgogno’s method utilizes both interpersonal and intrapsychic theory in a creative way. The chapter discusses a lesson in effective psychoanalytic work with deeply troubled patients. In sum, the “via di levare” is not available when analysts are dealing with nuclei of the personality that are deficitary in the psychic structure: indeed, in deficitary sectors of the personality, there is neither anything to unveil nor anything latent.
