The development of a personal analytical style during the process of assuming the role of analyst

In an attempt to explain the thought process underlying the analyst's assumption of the patient, I tried to delve into the When and How this process unfolds, immersing myself, without moulting, in that complex filigree (of emotions, sensations, thoughts) that develops in every new encounter between analyst and patient. The use of a metaphor "the starting blocks" emerged from the analytical path with Mr. A, together with the solicitations provided by the reading of Ogden's book have helped me to follow a path without certain references. The acquisition of a "personal" analytical style is formed within a training path with several steps that, over time, is interwoven with its unique and original style. In this way he develops his own way of being an analyst, which does not become a definitive paradigm but a temporary point of reference in the process of formation and assumption of his own role. Speaking of Mr. A and his traces scattered in the article, I dwell on the "how" the two subjects think, as well as on the "what" they think, declining the metaphor of being on the starting blocks as an opportunity that presents itself to the subject to get out of a circularity that leads him to reproduce its historical functioning. A mode that sees it rigidly folded on itself, in a short circuit where past and present chase each other in a perpetual motion, in the vain attempt of a return to the past, that can make it reborn in the present.