Primal phantasies and phantasms. Their role and signifi cance in the psychoanalytic process

Psychoanalytical concepts

Abstract

Using the example of clinical cases, the author offers a description of the phenomena of fi rst phantasms and phantasms in the psychoanalytic process, as it is refl ected in the dynamics of work, correlates with the structure and level of mental functioning, as well as the pathology of the psychoanalytic process. Special attention in psychoanalytic work is paid to those unconscious processes that can be used by an analyst for effectiveness and analysability from the point of view of the universality of the fi rst phantasms and the uniqueness and variability of phantasms as matrix contents. The discovery of personal phantasm and its symbolization allow, with the help of insights and elaboration, to increase the level of mental functioning and lead to the transformation of the analysant.