ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a preparatory work of therapeutic consultation which makes it possible, if things finally move in the direction of an analytic indication, to propose two sessions a week. It examines the point of view of the analytic process and not one which consists in regarding analysis as work based on three or more sessions a week and psychotherapy on two. The chapter shows that giving the child's instinctual drive impulses an opportunity to express themselves, which is in the nature of the "subject", of subjectivation. The conditions of complementarity between the child and the parents, are the basis of all psychoanalytic work concerning them. Everything begins with the first or rather the first two meetings, favouring the possibility of meaning emerging retroactively. Once the field of the non-psychoanalytic psychotherapies of psychoanalytic inspiration had been opened up, Rene Diatkine introduced, within the analytic space itself, the distinction between interventions and interpretations.