ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the case study of David, Ginny and Doug. David’s toxic representations of his father were not reflected from the analysis to the supervision, as would be the case in parallel process, but were segregated from the analyst-patient relationship to rest within the supervisor-supervisee dyad. Ginny’s self-effacing, apologetic stance towards the world disguised her disavowed sense of narcissism and entitlement, her rage and envy of others who could act upon their needs selfishly, and her unconscious wish to demand the kind of treatment she felt she deserved from those around her without taking any personal responsibility. Doug’s therapist was in supervision with a senior analyst whose first name was also Douglas, and she referred to him as Douglas. The heightened affect states occurring in psychoanalysis lend themselves to the experience of a multidimensional connectedness beyond that explicable by ordinary unconscious dynamics. On a conscious, asymmetrical level, supervisors are overseers of the analytic process as the word supervision implies.
