Between Life and Death, Omnipotence’s Reign
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'? The author discusses the effects of a doctor's prognosis of death on the patient's psyche in reference to a particular clinical case. The analytic situation was characterised by an extreme and traumatic disorganisation of temporality, representative activity and affects. The subsequent invalidity of this prognosis revealed a resonance between a medical and infantile position of omnipotence in both doctor and patient, and the risk of assuming a position of omnipotence on part of the psychoanalyst. It was only after the trauma had been worked through that a link with infantile sexuality could be established.
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