ABSTRACT
The analytic process actualizes through interpretation and deals with the hidden meaning, the absent meaning and the potential meaning of the patient’s communications. In clinical experience patients use the analytic space in two distinct ways: as concrete space to be in and as potential space where they sustain moods and larval psychic experiences that their ego-capacities cannot yet actualize. The potential space happens only in relation to a feeling of confidence on the part of the baby, that is, confidence related to the dependability of the mother-figure or environmental elements, confidence being the evidence of dependability that is becoming introjected. The potential space of the secret imprisoned that fact and kept it frozen. But it also disabled Caroline from being able to elaborate or correct it in terms of new experience. Pseudologia fantastica often provides similar potential space to a person.
