Recognizing and Connecting

A session offers the support of a theoretical and clinical reflexion about the concepts of dissociation and repression in the work with border-line patients. The hypothesis of the author is that the phenomenons of dissociation as Jung describes them would find their origin in the part of an archetypal experience which did not embody in an object relation. The inconscious counter-part arisen from the disjunction between conscient and inconscient would then compose the specific field of repression as Freud theorised it. Though the notion of dissociation would permit a theorization of the archaïc core found in these type of structures, theorization that the concept of repression alone is not able to do.