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In this paper I will try to show how the chimera, as I understand it, is the result of an unsettling encounter between the traumatic traces of the two protagonists, culminating in a process of reverie, a process, indeed, of hallucinatory emergence, in which a creature emerges from the emotional embers of their traumatic clay. Although I take up Michel de M’Uzan’s notion of depersonalization, I would like to show how my understanding of a chimera filled with sensory qualities is different from his. Back in 2016, I spoke of the unconscious and clandestine agreement of the traumatic traces of both protagonists, from which I think it emerges. This conception seemed to me to reposition the question of the subjective and intersubjective effect of the two protagonists in the session, reaching into their deepest interior, since this »mythical creature«, to use de M’Uzan’s words, emerges from in between them during the analyst’s reverie, expanding into depersonalization. Not only does it arise from the dispositif that contains the emotional truth of the patient and of the analyst, but it also completes the attainment of O, that ultimate reality by which the analyst abolishes their ego by becoming one exclusively with the emotions of the patient. In the first section I will discuss in detail the metapsychology from which de M’Uzan recasts his conception of the chimera, followed by that of James Grotstein, who insists on the agency of projective identification, and finally I will address de M’Uzan’s challenge to the Kleinian approach through his conception of the »vital-identital«, which delineates a field of self-preservation infused with unheard-of energies. With the help of an example, I will try to show that when this creature emerges from the very deepest intimacy of each couple, it comes from the greatest distance and mixes the species based on what is most affective in the transitional characters of the infantile. I will follow a path that connects the Freudian memory traces of 1896 with Bion’s rejection of memory in the session in favor of O – that ultimate reality achieved through the experience of oneness or »at-one-ment« when the analyst, confronted with the patient’s emotional experience, draws on his or her own corresponding emotional resources. Evidence for this will be provided by a detailed example of a chimera. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I would like to explore a form of truth related to the originary, which functions as specularity and generates a body/space cohabitation where metaphors and pictograms emanate from a common pool of figurative resources, articulated to the sensory data that generate images, the vectors of thought. Truth and falsehood can be understood based on a reversible process, which transits from the specular to the oniric and vice versa because the originary does not disappear. Identified by Freud in the figurability of dreams and defined in reference to Aulagnier and Bion's mention of a particular visual image (Bion, 1992), pictograms justify, in my opinion, the comparison between metaphoric, pictographic and chimeric truths. This is because, in my conception of the chimera (de M'Uzan, 1978; Ithier, 2016), I have discussed the link between pictograms and the chimera, which seems to me to belong to the field, or even the post-Bionian field (Ferro, 2018; Civitarese & Ferro, 2012). The truth of the chimera appears to be inscribed in the unconscious connivance of the traumatic traces of the two protagonists, by the depersonalization process of the analyst. To examine it, three clinical examples will be given. Finally, a reflection on the trope of metaphor, extended to an approach to metaphorization, will question the processes of substitution and resemblance, guarantors of symbolization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to compare the approach developed in 1974 by Michel de M'Uzan to the concept of the 'chimera' with Thomas Ogden's (, ) reflections on 'the analytic third'. This comparison shows that in spite of the different theoretical approaches, unconscious to unconscious communication - a subject of interest in contemporary psychoanalytic research - makes it possible to grasp the intersubjective data deployed in the field of the session. After reviewing M. de M'Uzan's conception of the 'chimera' - a product of the unconsciouses of patient and analyst alike, and which emerges during a process of depersonalization in the analyst - the author proposes her hypothesis of the chimera as a particular intersubjective third whose creation, in a hallucinatory state, makes it possible to gain access to the bodily and emotional basis of the trauma. The author describes the chimera as a mental 'squiggle' between the two members of the pair which finds expression in different forms; further, she considers that the chimera that seizes the analyst is underpinned by the unconscious affinities of traumatic zones in both protagonists, which permit the grounding, configuration and sharing of the territories of suffering, as apprehended in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) Congress Buenos Aires 2017: Claustroagoraphobia, Bertram Lewin, and the oral triad 6 April 2017 panel held in 2017 which was presented by Susan Finkelstein, Claudia Frank and Heinz Weiss and chaired by Samuel Zysman. Topics discussed include impossibility of intimacy in claustroagoraphobia; and dreams of a woman patient who had been suffering from panic attacks.