ABSTRACT
The question of the uncertainty of psychoanalytic cure inevitably remains an enormous challenge and a continuing question for those of who are clinical practitioners. Given the necessary uncertainty at its heart, psychoanalysis is particularly exposed to criticism and psychoanalysts become open to attacks. In psychoanalytic terms, the ego ideal of individuals evoked by the present political climate, instead of being a guiding ethical point of reference, an inspiring and directing internal agency, has become a destructive, persecuting psychic organisation of control. From psychological point of view, some of the managers and bureaucrats in charge of making fundamental decisions for the general welfare of entire communities appear to suffer from a seriously diminished form of symbolic functioning, dressed up as “rationality”, “efficiency”, and financial “expediency”. In response to the demands for simplified results concerning the efficacy of therapeutic psychoanalytic treatment, there is the risk of an equally deficient and mediocre response concerning both the theory and the practice of psychoanalysis.
