title: Imaginary Transitions and Transformation in Psychoanalytic Work.
abstract: This article explores the transformations that occur in analytic work from methodological, topographical, and dynamic perspectives, with a particular emphasis on the concept of imaginary transition. Through a theoretical exploration and the presentation of clinical material from five cases, the authors show how the process of working-through emerges in treatment as a result of the changes of rhythm, register, images, phenomena of upheaval, and the numerous displacements that are brought about in and through transference. Events are only markers or clues about a transformation that takes place over the long term.
authors.affiliation: Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris Lumière, 61, rue de Lancry, 75010 Paris, France. E-mail: francois.pommier@u-paris10.fr.
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pommier
authors.affiliation: University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 5 rue du Moulinet, 76000 Rouen, France. E-mail: fredericforest@wanadoo.fr.
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Forest
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D014167:Transference, Psychology