ABSTRACT
The coronavirus pandemic forced psychotherapists to swiftly move their practice online. The psychosomatic aspects of the interactive field, of the transference and countertransference, cannot be “transported” from a shared physical space into cyberspace. A form of Keats’ negative capability is needed to work under unconscious pressure to compensate for what is missing and forge a new, unknown ingredient. “How are you?” clients ask the author sometimes, and this is no longer just a question for analytic interpretation but a confirmation of our shared reality. In this new reality, new themes are entering the analytic space. This chapter explores the emergence of these themes in the altered internal and external environments that our patients and we now occupy. It addresses crucial questions that call our attention with the utmost urgency. A new approach to the mystery of communication between alone-nesses, a new paradigm for the way we think and work, may be in the making.
