10: Openness to Singularity 1. Some papers on curiosity have recently appeared in the analytic literature. See, for example, Goldberg (2002) and Nersessian (1995). Perhaps this signals a new interest in the analytic study of this important human trait. Still, the analytic study of curiosity is far from a burgeoning one. 12: Coparticipant Transference Analysis 1. Sullivan held that a patient’s initial insight into a transferential process would reduce his or her resistance to the analysis and foster a gradual evolution into a viable working collaboration. In his words, Once past the first milestone of insight into a parataxic process, the resistance to interpretations passes gradually into a careful validating process. . . . These initial insights [are of] fundamental significance in changing an allegedly ther- apeutic situation from a highly tentative and risky integration into a firm and reliable collaboration. (1940, p. 204) 13: Living Through 1. The personal relationship refers to the inadvertent, relatively unconflicted dimension of the analytic relationship, what some call the real or actual relation- ship. This aspect of analytic relatedness stands in contrast to the technical, or intentional, aspects of analytic relatedness. As I outlined in my 1988 paper on curative action, the analytic relationship may heuristically be ordered in terms of four dimensions: transference, intention- ality, specificity, and directness. First of all, the analytic relationship can be divided into the actual and the transference-countertransference relationships. The actual relationship divides into the technical (intended) relationship and the personal (inadvertent) relationship. The personal relationship carries curative impact in two ways: directly, as new relational experience and, indirectly, in its adjunctive role of confirming or dis- confirming interpretive (verbal) understanding. The personal relationship, in addi- tion to its specific curative effect via the living through process, also plays a gen- eral facilitative role in its contributions to the establishment of a therapeutic alliance or working relationship. The transference-countertransference, consensually valid and personal rela- tionships are, of course, only separable conceptually. In the analytic situation, as in everyday life, interpersonal and intrapersonal processes are always complex, constantly shifting amalgams of these relational dimensions. See Fiscalini (1988) for a fuller account of the hypothesized structure of the analytic relationship out- lined here. 224 Notes