https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2022.703

The relational experience in the psychoanalytic situation

Vol. 33 No. s1 (2022): Italy and its relational proposals
Submitted: July 1, 2022
Accepted: September 12, 2022
Published: December 30, 2022
Relationship experience, intercorporeality, prototaxic experience, parataxic experience, syntaxis experience.
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Roberto Cutajar
robertocutajar@inwind.it
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0323-0333
Physician and psychoanalyst, Director of the School of Specialisation in Psychotherapy, Institute of Analytical Psychotherapy of Florence, Italy.

The author explores the psychological dimensions of relational experience in the psychoanalytic situation, declined in accordance with the tradition of interpersonal psychoanalysis. After a review of the literature on the topic, H. S. Sullivan’s original thinking on the subject is examined, retrieving and updating the three levels of experience, prototaxic (body), parataxic (visual image and dream), and syntaxis (language). After describing the four meanings through which these forms of relational experience are elaborated and conceived in the interpersonal psychoanalytic literature, the author highlights some suggestive analogies with the thinking of Bion and of Wilma Bucci.

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Cutajar, R. (2022). The relational experience in the psychoanalytic situation. Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 33(s1). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2022.703
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