ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author present the lectures on psychotherapy and spirituality. The author sticks to this implication that he was going to talk about projective identification, but he can’t promise that it will be like that, because what he was really occupied with these days is the contrast between invention and discovery, which he think is terribly important for psychoanalysis. In grazing through some mathematical books—which he cannot read but can only graze through—on the subject of negative and imaginary numbers, he realized that he was constantly hearing an equivocation as to whether this was about invention or about discovery. The invention has to do really with nomenclature—the names that someone give to things, and the fact that names become so concrete and so factual that one does really believe that they mean something. Projective identification is one of these things that someone believes in.
