A session with Lucia

The clinical material concerns a session with a patient undergoing re-analysis six years after the end of the previous treatment period: analyst and patient are the same persons, but both find themselves profoundly changed after the first experience. For the patient, what is at stake is the deepening and greater articulation of internal contact with self and other, together with the recovery of a greater sense of continuity and cohesion in the sense of self. For the analyst, this re-analysis is also an opportunity to confront one's own evolution in functioning with both the working Ego and the working Self. The reported session touches on various experiential and technical levels, with references to the extra- and intra-analytic past, to extra- and intra-analytic events in the here and now, and with the constitution of a growing subjectivity that hints at the prospect of a much more substantial separation than that of the first analysis.