Abstract

ROCHA, Nelson José Nazaré. Enactment: model to think of the psychoanalytical process. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2009, vol.43, n.2, pp. 173-182. ISSN 0486-641X.

Through a brief bibliographical review, the author begins the paper describing and discussing the concept of enactment, and how he defines this and other terms. Following the differentiation proposed by Jacobs between overt and covert enactments, the author presents a short clinical example of the former and a more complex clinical situation to illustrate the second kind of enactment. In the latter, the author examines the importance of the concept in its clinical application, also discussing the validity of this concept as an instrument for the understanding and working through of clinical phenomena, taking into consideration its differences vis à vis the concepts of acting-out and projective identification and projective counter-identification. The author concludes the paper, defending the use of this concept as a model - in the sense it was used by Bion: as an instrument to think, to be abandoned after being used - in order to help describe and think about the analytic situation.

Keywords : Enactment; Acting out; Projective identification; Projective counter-identification; Borderline adolescent.

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