»Was mache ich hier?«

Abstract

Experiences on journeys can trigger intrapsychic processes that affect us deeply, confronting us with important emotional experiences and making way for new insights. However, experiences on journeys cannot succeed in making the connection between intrapsychic processes and hereditary aspects, thus allowing inner and outer factors to be integrated. In fact, the analyst's task is to understand and work through the narrative of psychotherapy, which can be seen as an "outer skin" in which numerous variations on themes of past experiences are actualised. Experiences of healing on journeys can thus be understood in terms of Lichtenberg's "model scenes", whereby the process of analysis as a whole can be viewed in terms of working through such scenes.