ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes some of the relational events and to arrive at hypotheses about the mind at work in a transitional area between being inside and being outside the analytic situation, in which the patient's contribution has made unexplored areas of the relationship representable. Living images have arisen within the space of the anteroom, entering the mind from a different angle and hence throwing light on certain limiting aspects of the exploration of the analytic field undertaken by the patient and himself in the consulting room. In the anteroom, one is not on the analytic stage, but one's mental disposition preserves a degree of immersion in the dark that excludes external reality. The anteroom thus became an intransitive place – that is, place unsuitable for the negotiation of not readily tolerable conflict. At the end of the session, when Giovanni and the author leave the children's room, the mother appears in the anteroom and Giovanni embraces her.
