ABSTRACT
An analytic lens sharpens and magnies the way in which newness usually carries with it elements of the old. Hope itself, in psychoanalysis, is born of the constant tug between our emphasis on understanding the shackles of the past and the notion that a new experience might emerge. Traditional psychoanalytic understandings of newness rarely refer to actual capabilities that appear anew. Instead, newness often includes emergent emotional and cognitive reworkings of experience. Such reworkings may be visible only to the subject (patient, analyst, or both) who is seeing and feeling something in a different way.
