ABSTRACT

Conceptual structures circumscribe and shape experienced reality and are, to an extent, idiosyncratic. Dr. M. Zoe is considering therapy because she has been feeling anxious and a bit lost. Zoe and each of the analysts may experience multiple, relatively unique conceptual and emotional structures. A second level of translation that operates in psychoanalytic processes involves a communicative system implicitly built by each analyst and Zoe in the course of the analytic process. The vehicle of analytic communication is the natural language used by Zoe and the analysts. Zoe's communications take on more and other emotional valences, significances, fantasies, and metaphors in light of her communication within a unique session. Zoe is transformed through the process of continuously precipitating the idiosyncratic elements of experience into the process via the experiences of each specific, unique psychoanalytic process. In the plasmic model, the emphasis in an analytic process is on the unfolding affective verbalization of the unconscious metaphoric processes of Zoe's idiolect.