ABSTRACT
The last decade has brought significant changes in the conception of analytic work. As Mitchell (1993) argued, psychoanalysis is undergoing a deep paradigm change. The goal of analysis is conceived of less as making the unconscious conscious than as the enrichment of a patient's subjectivity. One of the most eloquent spokesmen of this direction of thought, Bollas (1989, 1992), developed an interesting vocabulary to describe the process of elaborating a patient's personal idiom.
