ABSTRACT
A pregnancy that starts and develops during an analysis offers the analyst the possibility to observe the origins of the mother-child relationship, starting from those stages when the child not only is not concretely present, but also when there is no conscious desire of motherhood in the woman. For this reason, I believe that the analysis room is a privileged vantage point from which to observe the pregnant woman's psychic movements. Pregnancy, as a psychosomatic event of the woman's life, demands, when it occurs during an analysis, that the analyst interacts with an aspect of reality that the pregnancy status imposes with all its evidence. The latter, though, is not easy to manage because of the enormous issue of the psychoanalyst's abstinence in regard to reality. We may wonder whether pregnancy is not, because of this, a micro-trauma for the analyst at work, or rather for the analytic relationship, in terms of its readability and interpretability.
