ABSTRACT
Words that touch bring time to life—the patient’s time, the analyst’s time, the time of the generations, and their interactions; the beginning and end of life confer vitality on its present, and a precious heritage of the past meets with the promises of future generations. The difficulty of tolerating the various aspects or parts making up a heterogeneous patient’s self is often reflected in difficulty in tolerating the heterogeneity of the various periods of his life. In analyst wish to avoid the anxiety aroused by the inescapability of death, the patient may have what the author have called a fantasy of infinity. An analyst’s fantasy age changes with his transference role in the relationship with his analysand. Berthe had become like the Louvre, a deserted museum. However, she felt that she needed to take a fresh look at certain frozen moments from her past so as to find an inner cohesion and to restore life to her affective world.
