Loewald tells us that the ghosts of the underground that awaken, taste the blood of recognition and haunt us in ways not fully understood gradually become ancestors, buried and of much less importance. There is a constant co-mingling of meanings of what is perceived with old home movies of what was once in the past thought to have been the meaning of a performance. Mimesis is the constant testing, externalizing, projecting, directing, requesting, demanding, seducing, threatening, etc. Recently psychoanalysts have become interested in enactments. The subject qua director is, more or less, in touch with the playwright.
Mimesis entails someone grasping the performance of some sequential events and meanings.
This was seen in the work of Bion who freed himself from his arrest and in the case of The Skinned Alive Lady.