ABSTRACT

This conclusion chapter describes the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on what can indeed be taught, namely the metapsychology that is indispensable for it. It explains structural presentation of the consequences inherent in the paradigmatic applications, that is, the accusatory or exculpatory effect in combination with the infantilization of the subject. The approach starts out from the idea that the relation between the subject and the Other is a lasting construction, emerging in the course of the history of the subject and to a certain extent open to change. The book shows how the question of guilt is surreptitiously implicit in the classical question of etiology; making this explicit can only be a gain. It also addresses the value of the still-to-be-developed metapsychology and the resulting differential diagnostics must be evaluated around our central aim: a clinical psycho-diagnostics that must be explicitly relevant to and, hence, conceptually linked to the ensuing treatment.