“Corpses, gods, and turbolence between patient and analyst: Reflections on some clinical manifestations of the non-repressed unconscious”

The aim of massive use of denigration and idealization is to keep the subject in a narcissistic relationship that prevents all structural transformations and protects him against fear of breakdown and the anxiety of re-living traumatic situations. These defenses condemn him to isolation and psychic emptiness. Projective identifications, hyperbole, actions, and hallucinosis can be discordant and dysfunctional attempts to approach the object and avoid both its deification and its burial. In a treatment phase characterized by omnipotence, the patient runs the risk of re-creating a traumatic situation to which he exposes himself and exposes us. The relationship between the attempt to overcome psychic paralysis through «actions», and the psychoanalyst’s response to his own inner turbulence, allows the patient to experience the analyst’s survival of his «actions» and to begin the transformation of his idealizations and denigrations.