ABSTRACT
The clinical section of the book opens, in analogy to the previous one, with phenomenology. We decided to reprint the 2006 paper by Elsa Ronningstam, possibly the best known and frequently quoted paper on silence in psychoanalysis in the last 20 years. It offers an overview of the cross-cultural meanings of silence and the review of psychoanalytic literature on silence, yet its central part is a detailed case presentation, and we hope that this will provide an inspiring overture to all subsequent chapters.
