ABSTRACT
By habit, psychoanalysts relegate social terror to private space in order to grasp it among source objects rather than the virtual ones that have yet to be named. The analyst adopts a reliable role or frame “to constitute a process that is studied, analyzed, and interpreted”. The frame, as described by psychoanalysts of diverse theoretical orientations, thus offers a baseline of reliability that provides a “bulwark” for a basic functional configuration of roles that are contained in the initial commitment and agreement to enter treatment. Inevitably, reliance on the frame in social states of threat falls short of achieving its ideal variable yet homeostatic state and has a defensive quality. Terror has no respect for analytic structures or functions. Terror defies representation for lack of a source to copy. When terror emanates from institutions of State power, it falls back on the structural logic of institutions.
