When the Mind Goes Dim: The Analyst’s Fatigue Between Boredom and Induction
There are sessions that do not feel alive. The analyst, usually attentive and curious, finds their mind drifting. Thoughts lose their edge, attention softens, and...
Borrowed Minds: When Feeling Becomes Language in Projective Identification
There are moments in analytic work when understanding does not arrive through words, but through a shift in feeling. The analyst finds themselves suddenly anxious,...
Under the Patient’s Gaze: When the Couch Disappears
There is a particular intensity in being watched. In psychoanalytic work, this intensity becomes especially charged when the patient remains seated, facing the analyst, rather...
The Storm That Must Arrive: On Negative Transference and the Risk of Staying Pleasant
There is a quiet temptation in analytic work: to remain in the realm of the agreeable. Sessions that flow smoothly, a patient who is cooperative,...
When the Analyst’s Body Speaks: Countertransference in Psychosomatic Work
There are moments in clinical practice when the analyst’s body seems to know before the mind does. A sudden wave of fatigue, an inexplicable tightness...
The Inheritance of Unspoken Wounds: Family Trauma and the Making of Fragility
Not all inheritances are visible. Some are not passed down through stories, objects, or even conscious memory, but through silences, bodily states, and unformulated anxieties....
Assembled Lives: The Psychic Echoes of Being an IVF Child
To be born is always, in some sense, to be “made” by others. Yet for those conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), this fact can...
Dreaming the Child Into Being: Winnicott and the Mother’s Necessary Illusion
Before the infant can imagine itself, it must first be imagined. Long before language, before memory, before even a coherent sense of self, there exists...
The Mother Who Cannot Wait: When Feeding Replaces Digesting
In the earliest psychic exchanges between mother and infant, time is not merely chronological—it is emotional, bodily, and symbolic. The act of feeding, often idealized...
Before Words, After Meaning: On Symbolization and Its Discontents
Psychoanalysis is, at its core, a theory of transformation. It concerns the movement from excitation to representation, from bodily intensity to psychic form, from what...