ABSTRACT
Many analysts find the continued silence in an analysis as seemingly too profound an attack on their own self, together with the particular analytic repertoire of knowledge being far more familiar and comfortable in an analytic world of discourse by words. So the analyst having knowledge of disaffection within his own unconscious as well as having been in the analytic process in order to attempt healing is a central component to having a training. The analyst will be the butt of attacks as the patient, identifying with the aggressor, may take a sadistic stance in the analysis. The patient may think that it is all too hopeless precisely because the analyst realises that a fragment of life is still available; after all, the patient is able to bring such a dream. The initial spotlight of the hara-kiri happening in the dream moves evocatively, in Borgogno’s narration, to a transition with the analysand being called “No-body”.
