ABSTRACT
When one speaks of the psychoanalytic situation, it is obvious that one refers to the relationship of a special type which is born out of the specific. And in some way peculiar, nature of the encounter; the affects generated in it will, to some extent, reproduce those which occur or have occurred outside it. Psychoanalysis, contrary to commonly held fears, can be helpful to the artist in providing a further outlet in the psychoanalytic situation for the appropriate release of the affects. Greater integration derived from intellectual and emotional working through reduces acting out and symptomatic actions quite apart from mobilizing new areas in the personality. As many analysts know, this would enhance rather than impede artistic expression. Psychoanalysis is an art but, unlike art itself, it cannot be isolated from meaning. Psychoanalysts, in common with artists, are dissatisfied with their capacity to interpret and externalize the total innermost experiences in themselves and their analysands.
