ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discuses some ideas about matters that have been occupying his mind that relate to the subject at hand. The concept of a reverie function has been extended to include analytic work with a patient, in that what the analyst does is to perform alpha function and what Meltzer has called counter-dreaming. The idea of the link, of a linking function that connects human beings and people vicissitudes, is one of Bion's major contributions to people way of thinking, understanding, and working with people patients and with themselves. The consequence of feeling lonely is more benevolent than of feeling choked. As psychoanalysts the author can never be certain that they are prepared and ready to do what the author hope to do in them clinical work. People come to hoping to alleviate their suffering, feeling threatened by some internal catastrophe, wanting to change something in their lives.
