ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the impact on understanding of the process of working through of Bion's emphasis that each session is an entity unto itself and that the analyst ought to approach each clinical hour without memory and desire. It outlines a model of change that first and foremost hinges on a constant unconscious communication between the psyches of patient and analyst that either aims to uncover repressed unconscious contents or to transform unrepresented affective experience into symbolized and emotionally meaningful experience. Projective and introjec-tive processes are the thoroughfares along which unconscious to unconscious communication travels and alpha function in the analyst and patient is responsible for encoding and decoding unconscious messages. The chapter shows that the Boston Change Process Study Group tends to underemphasize the role of unconscious processes in their work and that when the unconscious is mentioned.
