ABSTRACT

This chapter explains the understanding of the patient-analyst dyad as a system and how therapy works and how one can begin to conceptualize cure. The emblematic eagle was a standard on the car and on the shield next to the entrance of the residence. Failure is such a dreaded experience that it is regularly ignored, denied, displaced elsewhere. Bruno represents an inner state of cynically having given up, who has finally collapsed in the face of too much inexplicable inconsistency, bland indifference and random psychological violence. Coburn speaks about how our experiences profligate outwards and flow into and settle in some form in all our systems of relatedness. The task of writing a psychoanalytic narrative is one of transposing the analyst's understanding into a presentation illuminating the life under study for the intellectual community at large.