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Volume 7, Number 2
July-December 2003


Essere e non essere; dal dilemma al paradosso.
(To be or not to be: from dilemma to paradox.)
Guillermo Bodner


SUMMARY

In this paper the author deals with the issue of the real person of the analyst during the session. He considers that the concept of reality in psichoanalysis is inseparable from the metapsychological model used. Real experiences during the analytic session are enclosed within the intersubjective frame, but at the same time they express intrapsychic relations.The intersubjective and the intrapsychic are two vertices used to observe the same experience.

The link between reality and the total object within kleinian theory is discussed as well. The author considers that Bion's contributions and its later developments prospect the widening of the levels of observation and the analysis of psychic reality. A brief clinical vignette is included in order to illustrate how the different levels of reality appear during the session.