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of ways of intervention that tend to establish symbolic links in the form symbolizations of transition" (p. 450). For Bleichmar, the therapeutic encounter is a place where symbolic production can occur. She approaches the analyst's reverie and his ability to think about the other. She emphasizes that the analyst has an important role in expanding the patient’s symbolizing function. V. Bc. Isidoro Berenstein (Argentina) Berenstein put forth some original conceptualizations in areas of symbolization in relation to ‘subject’ and ‘subjectivity’ in the chapter " The presentation, the representation and the symbolization", in his book “The Subject and the Other, from the Absence to the Presence” (2001). He describes the constitution of subjectivity in terms of: - the representable: that which has the possibility of being expressed by a representation. - the unrepresentable: that which, occupying a place in the psyche, is uncapable of being expressed by a representation. (René Roussillon refers to this content as something that leaves bodily traces, cannot be remembered, but could be revived in analysis.) - the inscription of what did not have a previous representation. He questions whether what is contained in the psyche regarding the field of representations and the representable, has a unique origin in the first years of life, or if it is possible to admit later moments of inscription. His main concern is with the process of transforming the irrepresentable into representable, through experience with the other, throughout life. As an example of the irrepresentable, he mentions Bion’s “nameless dread”. He considers that words can traverse only what is related to the representation and describes the unrepresentable, that which cannot possibly be represented: "I suggest calling ‘the unrepresentable’ a series of mental facts related to becoming of a human being” (p. 101). The unrepresentable reiterates without the possibility of being repressed, and to be put into words, to become partially speakable or to constitute compromise formations. “There is an almost permanent presence in the psyche which prevents its transformation into absence, the latter being a precondition for inscription as a representation” (p. 100). Berenstein also highlights what is called presentation. This refers to everything that is presented to an individual through the sense organs, including what is perceived of the other, which is modeled on early object relationships. He complements this approach with another aspect: “the new” in later relationships, that allows for the existence of links ( lo vincular , in the Spanish original). For example, links pertaining to couples relations or to parent-child relations. He calls it: “establishing contact with the new” (p. 104).
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