ABSTRACT
The capacity to be alone that is provided by the setting and discovered preformed in the overall arrangement has, none the less, to be appropriated within that setting as the analysis progresses. The capacity to be alone in the presence of the object is justified by the capacity to be alone with the drives—this, in the final instance, is what governs the relationship that is set up with the object. The existence of the capacity is a necessary precondition for any non-alienated subjective appropriation. In the conception, the analyst's position is simply that of reflecting what analysands do not know about themselves, enabling them to hear what they were unable to hear coming from inside themselves. In the conception, psychoanalysis is simply a way of uncovering meaning which, historically, is already present but hidden somewhere in the depths of the mind.
