ABSTRACT
In the history of psychoanalytic technique, the “fundamental rule” has had an immeasurable importance, because it establishes the mental setting in which patients have to find their way. “The analysand is asked to say what he thinks and feels, selecting nothing and omitting nothing from what comes into his mind, even where this seems to him unpleasant to have to communicate, ridiculous, devoid of interest or irrelevant” (Laplanche and Pontalis, 1967).
