Commentary on the clinical case presented in: The couple as an opportunity for mutual becoming

The author starts from the assumption that a crisis is first of all individual, and that it finds in the couple bond its privileged ground of expression, with respect to the tension, always present in affective bonds, of combining complexity and unity. If this can be the center of gravity of this clinical essay - or as it is observed, the fuel of this work - this should be seen in close continuity with Michele Minolli's theory, which highlights the importance of a dual vision of couple life, accentuating the value of the I-Subject, which develops the potentialities of its becoming in the affective encounter with the Other, and which is always grappling with the precarious balance between fidelity to its own configuration and the attraction to the exploration of new existential solutions. The underlying perspective is thus a relational/interactionist one, in which the couple relationship can be understood as the potential context for individual growth and emancipation, in a process of continuous becoming. [...]