ABSTRACT
There are many registers from which the analyst can illuminate points of transference-countertransference enactment, and our reverie is often quite useful in this process. The modality by which the analyst communicates these formulations of unconsciously held object relations and defenses also varies and includes verbal interpretation through symbolic speech, interpretive action (Ogden, 1994b), and at times, interpretations that involve “analyst disclosure”—a construction of the analyst’s subjectivity put forward to enhance the patient’s understanding of enactments of the transferencecountertransference (Cooper, 1998a, 1998b). In this chapter, I describe varying ways of using and thinking about forms of analytic reverie and the analyst’s privacy.
