Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis by Antonino Ferro

Author:Antonino Ferro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

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A person comes for a consultation. When I go to open the door, I don’t see anyone. I wait in amazement, then I lean out and I see a very tall person, curled up. In a very faint voice he says: ‘I was hiding in this corner because I heard a deep voice coming from inside and I was afraid someone was there.’

I invite him to come in and throughout the interview he continues to talk with a feeble voice, almost a whisper that makes it hard to hear what he is saying. He talks about a lot of different things, but everything remains hidden, with the result that my interest is not stimulated. At the moment it comes to paying, he asks me in a faint voice: ‘Should I put your name on the cheque?’ I can’t help myself, and I say: ‘No, put Gino Cerutti, the man they called dragon.’ This is an allusion to a song that goes: ‘His name was Gino Cerutti, but they called him dragon …’ The dragon had gone up the stairs faster than the patient and when he heard its powerful voice he had felt scared. It had taken some time for it to come out in the form of my quip that expressed in après-coup the split part of the patient, the part that terrified him – the dragon.

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