ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book intends to stay close to clinical process and bring the voices of many theoretical traditions to a careful consideration of the process of "finding unconscious fantasy". It provides a way to think about unconscious fantasy and psychic realities in which narrative, symbolic thinking, trauma, body pain, and the unsymbolized can all be found and understood. The book focuses on the way "finding the unconscious fantasy" in clinical work takes place brings attention to expressions as they become crystallized in the transference/countertransference. It describes the finding of unconscious fantasy brings a symbolizing process to areas of the mind that have been inaccessible either due to repression or because contents are in pre-symbolized form. There are multiple roads to unconscious fantasy: narrative, daydream, night dream, body feelings and movement, associative processes, transference, countertransference, and the enacted interactions of analysand and analyst.
