Introduction.

In this essay, a panel of papers is introduced organized around a target paper by Guiseppe Civitarese on the aesthetics and pragmatics of clinical psychoanalytic practice. Questions of the metapsychology, the clinical utility and the role of the nonverbal are addressed by two discussants (Steinberg and Goldberg) Links between relational and intersubjective analytic practices and theorizing such practices are linked to the development of the aesthetics, sometimes spoken of as "negative capability", in the work of Wilfred Bion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]