ABSTRACT
Crimes must be investigated and made public; phantasies, on the other hand, are to be interpreted and maintained within the subjective. As soon as the notion of an actual crime enters the scene, then this protected realm of the private and subjective is invaded and distorted. Revelations of crimes-that-do-not-exist, appearing in the consulting room, are akin to hallucinations. Both are expressions of the "real" that has been foreclosed in the formation of the symbolic. Phantasies of incest are considered by most psychoanalysts to be more or less ubiquitous in children and in the child parts of the mind. The traditional sphere of psychoanalytic investigation is more or less limited to that of the play of conscious and unconscious desire and phantasy, expressive of conflictual psychodynamics. Natasha had suffered abuse and trauma in childhood, and this had led to a trauma-based psychosis, causing her to generate narratives that were a mixture of truth and delusion.
