ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an intergenerational perspective and dream analysis and analyses the tree symbol as a transcendent function. It proposes authentic movement as a ritual for balancing between the borders of the physical and the psyche, particularly in times of life threatening political repression, that creates existential uncertainty, and loss of roots. The chapter takes the symbol of the eye as a witness consciousness in the individuation process which includes ‘us’ as well as ‘I’. A re-visioned individuation, not only as analysts, but as citizens of the world, would assimilate a witness consciousness, a consciousness that is relational to oneself, to others, and to the world, as we journey through time metamorphosing at a rapid pace. A witness consciousness is essentially psychoid in nature, spanning the spectrum that moves between spirit and matter, archetype and instinct. As therapists and analysts, awareness is modelled in that relational space as a ritualised temenos, seeing the world of the patient through their eyes.
