ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies the various papers a kind of red thread in which the connections between truth and immediacy and between truth and unison are interwoven in various ways, both explicitly and implicitly. Certainly, the search for Truth with a capital T is believed to be an illusion, though not that of a ‘human’ truth, the only possible one. Rachel B. Blass alludes to other approaches that are not well identified except through the description that Greenberg gives in presenting this virtual symposium on the relevance of truth in psychoanalysis. The mentalization approach has also been criticized ‘from the left’ for failing to grasp the psychic truth of active unconscious conflicts, due to the emphasis given to the role of environmental deficits and trauma and the marginalization of insight. Truth would coincide with the experience of ‘presence, vitality, and at oneness’ that patients undergo in mentalizing.
