Lavallée, Guy

Hallucinatory Potential, Its Basic Organization, Its Reception, and Its Transformation in an Analytical Process - 2001.


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However the drives may develop, numerous clinical examples show that there always exists a hallucinatory potential, included in the “id” which can be remobilized and reorganized as much by classical analysis as by face-to-face psychotherapy. This hallucinatory potential is organized according to the general model of the “visual envelope of the ego,” a reflexive return of the drive, screen function, reduction of the hallucinatory potential to a quantum, the “container-contained” relationship, between the negative and positive hallucinatory potential. This potential, when it is well integrated, is an essential factor in mentalisation.