Abstract

JUNQUEIRA, Camila. Enactment, reverie, and figurability: making connections from a clinical experience. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2018, vol.52, n.1, pp. 113-127. ISSN 0486-641X.

Enactments generally relate to actions involving the analytic dyad. These actions express both repressed and not symbolized elements. The ways these actions are presented differ between neurotic and non-neurotic functioning. Reverie, on the other hand, is the psychoanalyst's ability, which is analogous to that of the mother, to receive elements that are not symbolized and give them figurability through ruminations, daydreams, and bodily sensations. Reverie is therefore an important working tool. In this paper, the purpose of the author is to illustrate, with a clinical vignette, how the processes of reverie and figurability may help us understand and manage enactment. The author proposes a discussion about the boundaries between the concepts of enactment and reverie.

Keywords : enactment; reverie; figurability; bulimia.

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