ABSTRACT
The use of models helps develop a more flexible container capable of containing not only the projections of a complex inner life but also the inner life which is deployed in the relationship between two people in a consulting room, both in the analytic relationship and in the supervision. The imaginative conjecture was described by Donald Meltzer in his developments on the aesthetic conflict. Meltzer was preoccupied with the development and transmission of psychoanalysis. The challenge analysts meet in supervision is to generate a space in the thin line where imagination may develop at the same time that work takes anchor in the basic analytic technique and theory. According to Meltzer, in his re-creating of W. R. Bion's concept, the model of container-contained places a new value on receptiveness and the holding of the dynamic situation of transference-countertransference in the mind.
