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Abstract
In response to a trend by relational and intersubjective analysts of replacing the centrality of repression with dissociation in the clinical model of psychoanalysis, I discuss the importance of both dissociation and repression in articulating the emotions, pathos, joy, and work—in other words, the “heart and soul”—of the patient and analyst in the analytic situation. The concept of the whole person is elaborated as a clinical concept that is necessary to enter the realm of what actually takes place within an analysis, creating greater proximity between the objective and subjective realms.