Abstract
ABSTRACT This is a discussion of “Permeable boundaries: Therapeutic benefits,” by Geist and Nocek. In my opinion, the core of their paper is the mutuality of their love and trust for each other, and they use the term “permeable boundaries” as a metaphor for these feelings, rather than it being the kind of singular, relational state they are proposing. As a positive contribution, the experience-near description of their mutual love for each other expands the degree of intimacy in psychoanalytic writing about analytic love. However, there is a lack of sufficient information to understand their paper as a psychoanalytic treatise, and I have a number of disagreements with their conceptualization of “permeable boundaries,” as well as concerns about the quality of their mutual love which they portray as idyllic but which, in my opinion, lacks certain key elements of analytic love.
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