Abusive Relations and Traumatic Development: Marginal Notes on a Clinical Case.

This work offers a re-reading of the concept of repetition compulsion in relation to clinical work with patients who were severely traumatized at an early age. Going beyond the limit of the classical concept, which connects repetition compulsion to the death instinct, the function of traumatophilia is enlivened through the hypothesis that the automatisms of repetition may be the expression of the vital core of the Self, in search of the "transformational object."By presenting the detailed clinical case of Greta (a severely dissociated patient), the article seeks to show how the vicissitudes of the transformational object are played out in the transference-countertransference relationship, and how they come to life in the field through the creation of characters who are continually generated and transformed in the patient's and analyst's rêveries.

Hallucinosis and reverie: Alice's pain and its transformations in the consulting room.

This article seeks to explore, from a Bionian and post-Bionian perspective, the field of hallucinosis and its transformations, and to show how a certain kind of analytic work can take the patient from hallucinosic functioning to symbolic competence. The author refers to clinical situations where symbolic competence is markedly defective, and uses the term "Munch-patients" to refer to such persons, drawing on the metaphor suggested by the biography of the painter for its affinities with the suffering experienced by such patients.The case of Alice is used to develop these ideas. The patient, faced with her inability to cope with a certain psychic pain, transforms this pain in hallucinosis. Having to face the emotional turbulences present in the field, the analyst becomes involved in an enactment, culminating in a state of somato-psychic hallucinosis during a session. Alice's pain enters the relationship through the illness of the field, brought on stage, as it were, by the hallucinosis of the analyst, who manages to set in motion a metabolic cycle by means of her oneiric functions.The paper suggests regarding hallucinosis as a bridge between psychotic and oneiric functioning and emphasizes the importance of oneiric functions in enabling the transition from concreteness and raw facts to real emotions.