Rappoport de Aisemberg, Elsa

Heartaches - 2015.


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The exploration of the case of a patient who suffered a myocardial infarction serves as a starting point from which the author conveys the vicissitudes of his treatment: from the split-off affects perceived by the analyst in her bodily counter-transference to psychic change, when a more neurotic functioning emerges. The process is compared to the artists’ ability to represent trauma.