ABSTRACT
Anxiety stems from the absence of memory, when separation has created an unfathomable gap, and one side has moved so far away that nothing reaches it. Dopo Jung himself would make use of the metaphor of the crossroads when he described the phenomena of transference in 1946: the crossroads as the place where two ways get mixed up, since dissimilarity and separation seem to vanish there owing to the irruption of the ‘same’ into the ‘different’. Some constants of existence reawaken the original anxiety through the separation in which they are generated, and at the same time the possibility of treating it, through the tendency to reunion inherent in them. When, owing to the predominance and permanence of separation, that tendency breaks down, in other words when a splitting takes place, the anxiety that results is more often placated by cancelling out the very perception of doubleness, through denial or rejection of the separation.
