Abstract
Using detailed clinical material, the author tries to clarify what are the factors, inside the analyst's room, of fertility and infertility for the analytic couple. Concepts from Bion and the Barangers, as well as the concept of the analytic field, provide a frame of theory for the clinical material.
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Antonino Ferro is Training and Supervision Analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (IPA) and APsaA member. He has published several books translated into many languages; the last is Mind Works, published by Routledge. In 2007, he was selected to be a recipient of the Mary S. Sigourney Award.
1 Pension in Italian has two meanings: first is the monthly sum one receives when one reaches retirement age. Second, it refers to a kind of hotel that not only provides somewhere to sleep and wash, etc., but also three full meals a day (breakfast–lunch–dinner).