ABSTRACT
The force and vitality of unconscious realms are present whenever we work as professionals involved in facilitating psychological change, regardless of our particular field of application. In ego development and the elaboration of the "true self" of a child or a patient, the unconscious intention in the use of the object is not the destruction of the object but the discovery of the self. Reading D. W. Winnicott and C. Bollas opened new ways of reading and understanding Eric Berne, which led to a series of papers exploring both the richness and the limits of Berne's writing. Berne characterised third degree games and scripts as held and lived at the "tissue" level, by which he meant at the level of the body rather than the mind. The willingness of the therapist to respect that essential separateness gives the client the space and freedom of self-discovery and self-definition.
