Tears in the consulting room

Journal title STUDI JUNGHIANI
Author/s Alessandra Aronica
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/41 Language Italian
Pages 16 P. 67-82 File size 82 KB
DOI 10.3280/JUN2015-041006
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In analytic field patient’s tears are not enough considered, except like a cathartic manifestation or a defensive event. The author argues that tears are a proto-language close to music that moves us, an unconscious derivative that can symbolize the mourning for the loss of the Persona, an attempt of self-centring and, above all, a contact with the sphere of the Sacred.

Keywords: Tears, sacred, auto-centring, mourning, music, Persona

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Alessandra Aronica, Sulle lacrime nella stanza dell’analista in "STUDI JUNGHIANI" 41/2015, pp 67-82, DOI: 10.3280/JUN2015-041006