ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates on the dimensions of timelessness and spacelessness that can emerge when the analyst is unobtrusive to the flow of enactive engagement with patients for whom time and space are collapsed and transfigured. Riccardo Lombardi seeks to create clinical healing via the introduction of time, boundary, and limit into the clinical process to draw the patient out of the states of timelessness and boundarilessness. The chapter examines how Lombardi approaches clinical work with the states and outlines some thoughts about how such states can arise, not simply within the patient, but within the enacted dimension of the treatment involving both patient, analyst, and the field in a world of timelessness and spacelessness in symmetric enactment. It suggests that the unobtrusive relational analyst can companion the patient in the flow of enactment of these experiences, and it is this accompaniment that fosters the spontaneous emergence of separateness, distinction, containment, and external reality – "the clothing for thought".
