ABSTRACT
In our practice, we find ourselves in the realm of what is invisible to the senses but known intuitively. Psychoanalysts should use their intuition to keep the remembrances from being tampered with by intrusion or the desire to understand. The more the analyst is freed from that and is permanently disciplined, the more certain he will be that his observations are not originally stemming from his personal equation. Bion experienced that with the use of this process: the intuition of a “present evolution” is enabled, and future ones are given a steppingstone. According to him, the psychoanalytical attitude “is a deliberate act that depends on the active suspension of memory and desire: it is a work model that invites the analyst and the patient to commit to an emotional experience that captures the sparks of the unknowable”. Through a very long analytical process, interwoven with other paradoxical events, it was intuition that helped the analyst to “see, touch, smell and listen to” the patient.
