[Projective identification, mimesis and the analytical situation. Preliminary observations].
In an attempt to underline the need to refer to an imaginary setting, in which the analytical relationship is acted out, the Authors have considered the possible relations between the concept of projective identification, as defined by Klein and further developed by Bion, and the idea of "Mimesis", which is inevitably involved in every story, and which confronts the imaginary at the very moment in which it is produced. The "fusion" between subject and object, which may occur in a more or less partial manner, is defined as a phenomenal demonstration of the participation of the two poles of the relationship in a "super-individual" experience which embraces them both. The mythical image of the hunter. Anyone is, in our opinion, a paradigmatic clement in this from of "meeting" which takes place within an impersonal and illusionary dimension.