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the bi-personal field will not be a mere repetition, insofar as it arises within a new context (see entry PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD THEORIES AND CONCEPTS).
VII. Be. Roosevelt Cassorla Following the Barangers' ideas, contemporary Field theorist Cassorla (2010) proposes that early non-verbal inscriptions in the patient’s psyche can be reconstructed by the psychoanalyst within the analytic field. In this context, the analyst may be able to dream what the patient cannot; or, when the analyst is unable to symbolize these inscriptions, enactment may emerge. If the analyst can engage with the enactment and reflect upon it, this process may lead to a symbolization of the preverbal traces. (see a separate entry PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD THEORIES AND CONCEPTS and ENACTMENT). VII. Bf. Marcus Herrera In the context of his discussion of the meaning and translation of the Freudian terms “Vorstellung” and “Vorstellungsrepräsentanz” (see above the concept of representation in Freud), Marcos Herrera (2010) raises the following question regarding Freudian metapsychology: could the mental representation or idea (“Vorstellung”), which is the representative (“Repräsentanz”) of the drive in the psyche, be a mental representation of the drive itself? In his opinion, the answer must be negative, because the drive itself is not something the mind can have a representation of: “For the drive has a representative in the psyche, but in Freudian metapsychology there can be no such thing as a mental representation of the drive.” (Herrera 2010, p. 805). Insofar the drive cannot excite the sensorial surface of the psychic apparatus, it cannot be registered as a memory trace (“Erinnerungsspur”) which can later be recalled, which is what a mental representation or an idea is. Herrera (2010) claims that the mental representation (“Vorstellung”), which is the ideational representative (“Vorstellungsrepräsentanz”) of the drive, must be the mental representation of the object of the drive, because the object can be perceived through the senses and can therefore leave a memory trace, i. e. a mental representation or an idea, which can be recalled when the object is no longer there and which can be invested with libido by the drive. VII. Bd. Elias Rocha Barros and Jose Renato Avzaradel To explore in greater detail the construction of mental representations , Elias Rocha Barros (2005) and Jose Renato Avzaradel (2011,2024) propose a distinct approach to representation from pictographic thought to the word, based on Freud's initial thesis. They find Freud’s thesis of the representation of the ‘thing’ surprisingly up to date, forming the basis of one of the paths of research and development of contemporary psychoanalysis. The ‘thing’ is taken as meaning the body itself, the sensations, the breast, the
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