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Volume 12, Number 1
January - June 2008


Tra l'identificazione e il pensiero: riflessioni sull'internalizzazione
(Between identification and thinking: some notes on internalization)
Gabriel Sapisochin


SUMMARY


Using clinical material, an identificatory process is described, in which analytical listening articulates the intra-psychic and drive-related to what is historical and intersubjective. It is postulated that this process attacks the subject's capacity to think, condemning him to repeat compulsively a past that could never be. The author thinks that, even though identification is inevitable from the diachronic-developmental point of view, because it facilitates subjective structuring, it is only a moment of transit, not of arrival, since it contains the possibility of heteronomy.