INTUITION, REVERY AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE PSYCHOANALYTICAL RELATION

Abstract: In the present work, the author, following the thread of the concept of psychoanalytic intuition, proposes a dialogue between the perspective of Wilfred Ruprecht Bion and those of some post-Bionian psychoanalysts (Howard B. Levine, Thomas H. Ogden, Antonino Ferro, Rudy Vermote, Judy K. Eekhoff), highlighting in particular mental processes such as observation, intuition, reverie and transformation (alpha function). How can we think about the connection between observation and intuition? Or between reverie and intuition? Could the analyst's mental state of observation and receptivity/notation have at its center - before and beyond the sensory - the analyst's capacity for intuition? The author also presents vignettes from her clinical experience, illustrating how daydreaming is an evolution of psychoanalytic intuition and that intuition appears between caesuras, which is supported in particular by Bion's proposal of the analyst's self-discipline, "without memory, without desire, without prior understanding", respectively his negative capacity.