ABSTRACT

The concept of reconstruction has been a powerful concept in psychoanalysis. The sense of reconstructing the childhood scene or the family history, it principally regards patients with whom a theory of repression, screen memories, and infantile sexuality can be the focus of the work. Reconstruction is a technical device through which the patient is brought together with the past experientially through the analytic relationship. This chapter talks about a way of thinking of psychoanalysis that focuses legitimately on content. Psychoanalysis method is less applicable to more severe patients, or to children, especially young children, or even newborn children, as in the extraordinary recent research. This chapter presents a case of magdalene, who is an adult patient at an advanced stage of analysis, has a dream: two turtles come out of a cage and head off to the sea.