Abstract

GETLINGER, Patricia Vianna. The cockatoo-woman: about acting out and symbolization in an analytic process. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2014, vol.48, n.1, pp. 161-172. ISSN 0486-641X.

This paper attempts an examination of how processes that are acted out in the transferential-countertransferential field gradually evolve to processes of symbolization during analysis. Starting with the presentation of a clinical case, the paper focuses on the countertransferential experience and its power to provide basic levels of unconscious communication. Non-verbal elements (bodily, muscular, sensory, kinesthetic interactions, tone of voice and cadence, etc.) are privileged in the contact between analyst and patient, in their communicative potential and eventual symbolizing potential. It is stated that, in more serious cases, the shared experience of distressing and traumatic situations and the engagement of the symbolization work of the analyst herself (symbolizing countertransference) may generate, progressively, different levels of primary symbolization (thing representation) and of secondary symbolization (word representation).

Keywords : countertransference; agieren; non-verbal communication; body; symbolization.

        · abstract in Portuguese | Spanish     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )