ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case of a dancer, a daughter of a disabled mother, who did not dance. The therapist’s imagination, in which she was dancing, is understood as if a part of her mother’s potential imagination was dissociated, could not achieve fulfillment and therefore “chose” the therapist to be its conveyor and channel of manifestation. The chapter describes the process of the therapeutic enterprise in which the patient was “moved” by the therapist’s imagination. This feeling was associated with her ability to move on with her life. Her history may illustrate a process in which one person’s physical, actual limitation regarding movement might lead to a frozen state of mind in another, and vice versa. As language and primary processes are embedded in each other from the very start, at a certain point it does not matter what came first – the sense of emotional futility or the physical disability – both must be “moved.”
