ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses the problem of lies and truth in the analytic relationship from the perspective of bi-personal field theory, beginning with Bion's thinking. In 1958, Philip Anderson, without using experimental trials, conjectured that, beyond a certain level of disorder, a solid could undergo an actual transition to a new phase – for example, from being a conductor it could become an insulator. In order to trap a quantum particle, as Anderson envisioned, it is enough for there to be disorder. James S. Grotstein thinks that the child may be endowed very early on with a function that is capable of attributing an initial personal meaning to the emotional fact that impacts him. A certain type of dysfunction in the mind of the caregiver – or, subsequently, in the mind of the analyst – can generate a serious distortion in the process of signification and subjectivization.
