Moving limits

Abstract: The psychic truth, as a discovery of or as a journey towards the self (to become oneself; to become what you truly are), acquires its content from two directions. On the one hand, within it, the present, the past and the future entwine in the Freudian thread of the desire or in the traumatic thread in which the present is flooded with the past. The present and the past limit each other. On the other hand, the subject’s truth and identity pertain to the “spatial” twine between the instinctual exigency (soma) and the exigency of the external reality (the object), which represent another series of limits. In the clinic, these vertical and horizontal limits themselves are caught in the process of analytic movement. There are phenomena of overlapping and repositioning of the psychic limits, which sometimes go through body, somatic expressions or through acts on the brink of the setting, on their way to transference.