ABSTRACT
The movements brought about by analysis, which are closely linked to the development of the psychoanalytic work and the working through of material, together with the resultant changes, are two correlated yet distinct aspects within the psychoanalytic process, each of which influences that process in its own specific way. Movement indicates the combination of four factors: impulses, tendency, phase, and development. Movement may be narcissistic or object-related, and it is associated with identification, and with the various types of object relationship. Mental processes are intimately dependent upon the movements of the mind, yet equally they organise these movements. It is these processes that determine the kind of changes taking place over the course of an analysis. Psychoanalysis involves two people working together to bring about a transformation. This work is set up by the encounter, and regulated by the interplay between the mental functioning of the two protagonists.
