ABSTRACT
The author proposes that alongside enactments of trauma and early object relations, we might consider a register of the incarnation of Total Situations, outlined by Melanie Klein and later applied to the transference by Betty Joseph, in the treatment dyad and field. He suggest that Klein's concept of total situations invites a vector of understanding of analytic process and enactments that can bring the patient's internal world and unrepresented states to life in the field of the treatment. The author proposes that Klein's concept of total situations asks the analyst to appreciate and welcome the totalistic nature of the patient's experience. He argues that both patient and analyst participate in the incarnation and living through of these total situations, and that when allowed to unfold by an unobtrusive relational analyst, the field of the treatment itself can embody, incarnate, and bring to life these non-represented and unformulated total situations.
