ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on his personal analysis, especially on transference dynamics when switching to online mode, and on a different meaning connected with the process taking place in the unconscious. The experience of online therapy offered the opportunity of realizing the void connected to a traumatic past, as if the screen mediated a possibility of connection with the feeling of void, especially when the screen froze or the connection was lost. The change of the setting in analysis and moving our sessions online was not such a big problem for the author, because the author had been used to working online via Skype already. It was the beginning of a strange, yet very interesting year. Alessandra Cavalli explained the concept of the void in beautiful words in her article about transgenerational trauma: “When the environment is not able to fulfil a containing function, it leaves a void, an irrepresentability.