The fertile field for the great changes favored by psychoanalysis is being created in a practically unchanged scenario. A look at that repetitive, predictable and reliable form of encounter between patient and analyst.
The ritual allows you to trust that everyone will do their thing. You can count on the other, then, like the actors in the theater. The scene is set when you can trust that the other will be there to listen to what you have to say. “There are blows in life, so strong...”. The psychoanalyst’s place, by the way, consists of being there where the patient seeks him, but in another place. That slight variation, within the invariable, is what opens new doors. ‘Don’t move my things, it disturbs me’ I have been reproached for the absence or variation of some ornament. I’m not going to tell my analysis here, who might care. I want to stop at the ritual.