ABSTRACT
This chapter shows what is true for the hallucinatory process is equally true for a broad range of concepts. The chapter starts looking at how "Constructions in Analysis" articulates with Freud's reflections on the limits of analysis in "Analysis Terminable and Interminable", written slightly earlier. It develops this dialectic by focusing on the construction of a passive position and on the specific regressive modes that it implies. This brings people up against the question of the truth of their constructions, which the chapter examines from a particular angle, using the notion of historical truth, which Freud touched on in his text. The chapter emphasizes that the authors of the Paris psychosomatic school-marked by a focus on impaired mental functioning and barriers to regression in somatizing patients-have shaped the background against which the thinking develops. The chapter addresses the new hallucinatory modes that Freud was outlining at this point and which, he believed, contained their own kernel of historical truth.
