ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the very form of the containment patterns and their vicissitudes in the analytic field. It presents a case story about some aspects of an analytic treatment with a child named Luigi. The chapter describes the form of the containment pattern enacted in the relationship at the beginning of analysis and its transformations until the birth and development of Luigi's passion for the cinema, which actually occurred as an effect of his three-year analytic treatment and as concrete evidence of the appearance of new transformation patterns. As he attempted to meet his parents' expectations, Luigi asked them to make a lot of changes in his bedroom. His parents tried to meet his requests, as if they wanted to compensate, by this actual mobility, Luigi's tendency to immobility. The chapter highlights this creative transformation through his drawings and the progressive emergence inside the author of interpretative interventions that were qualitatively different over time.
