No exit

In her groundbreaking work with Mary Gail Frawley on the treatment of survivors of sexual abuse (1994), and in a series of subsequent papers (e.g., 2003, 2004) that illustrate the coercive, introjective-projective push and pull of clinical enactment and impasse, Davies evocatively portrayed the pain, the rage, and frustration for analyst and analysand, of the breakdown of intersubjectivity into complementarity. Davies (2003) evoked the essence of this “no exit” experience (“Hell is other people,” as Sartre, 1946, so succinctly put it), in this way: Patient and analyst become prisoners of the coercive projective power of each other’s vision; each becomes hopelessly defined by the other and incapable of escaping the force of the interactive pull to act in creative and fully agentic ways. (pp. 15–16)-- Enter Ghosts: The Loss of Intersubjectivity in Clinical Work With Adult Children of Pathological Narcissists[1]
Domination; Power