Avgi Saketopoulou Quotes

we have to bear some, at times considerable, discomfort in evoking painful affects and memories.

Narrativizing, Laurence Kahn highlights, risks producing a binding that is only mimetic (2018). To take this a step further, I would add that what this may mean at times is that the analyst may have to do some internal work of her own to avoid disrupting the patient’s move toward her own unbinding, which can, in turn, fracture encrusted meanings (old translations).

deforming the self would also stand to break down how we think about dignity and respect, to wound our very ideas about consent and sexuality, even to put pressure on some of our most cherished modes of what it means for someone to be humanized.