ABSTRACT
This chapter makes some theoretical considerations on the author's clinical experience, that is, his daily "encounter", within the analytic session, with the reality of the suffering of an individual, the "raw flesh" of the clinical work. It enquires about the psychic structures and constellations staged through the transference in the course of the psychoanalytic process. The chapter discusses current pathologies demand from the psychoanalytic elucidation (Green, 2002c) and from the psychoanalyst's theoretical and clinical commitment. It emphasises that when the time to consult comes, there are not only strident manifestations of Eros (symptoms) but also more silent expressions of Narcissus' fascination and of the repetition of fate. Sigmund Freud emerges from his self-questioning (denunciation of the pact) theoretically enriched and postulates his last duality of drives: life drive and death drive.
