ABSTRACT
The author outlines a register of relational psychoanalytic work that involves an expansion of the use of the analyst's subjectivity so as to work with patients and states that are not accessible to reflection and exploration in the verbal and related realm. He argues that in receiving his silent need for an object relationship "more primitive than that obtaining between two adults", he was able to offer his subjectivity in a dimension that he could use. The author explores about using and offering the analyst's subjectivity in the relational literature has too often emphasized the knowing and exploratory aspects of one's subjectivity; the expression of subjectivity that aims to help develop the dialogic and reflective aspects of the patient. He offers his subjectivity to Bernard in a register that accorded with the dimension of mentalization and containment that predominated at that time in the treatment.
