ABSTRACT
In the sixth year of June's treatment, the target of her psychic focus significantly changed. She no longer needed to focus on the analyst as an idealized representative of herself. Her developmental mourning process, and all its phases of separation and self-integration had allowed June to transition into a prime psychic focus on her real self, as opposed to on the analyst as an idealized self. Psychotherapeutic work with the defenses and enactments that inhibit mourning process and its parallel process of external object connection and new internalization had allowed June to become her own center of self agency, self subjectivity, and internal world dialectic. Through session after session of mourning process, in which old self and object constellations were loosened, seen with insight, and transformed, June had been gaining a new sense of power that now allowed her to have visions of her own development and life goals.
