ABSTRACT
An analytic process confronts both patient and analyst with a heterogeneous range of sensations, perceptions, emotions, and fantasies emanating from within. A determination not to experience anything coexists with an inability to reject or ignore any stimulus, as well as with the limitations of our instruments – dreams, every human act – and the constraints imposed by every prediction. The diversity of images generated by death, which becomes disembedded from the body, emotions stirred by catastrophe, circumstances that return to the mind (scenes that were not evacuated), internal images, fear, the vicissitudes of relational life, all generate a tension that is inscribed in the body at every level. These elements scare us and prompt us to establish a kind of artificial order.
