therapist-patient collaborating in a mutual fiction story
… counter-transference, the therapist-writer’s self-indulgence in the story. Two authors are now collaborating in a mutual fiction of therapy, though conventionally only one of them will write it
talk going on in depth analysis is not merely the analysis of one person’s story by the other, and whatever else is going on in a therapy session – ritual, suggestion, eros, power, projection – it is also a contest between singers, reenacting one of the oldest kinds of cultural enjoyments that we humans know