ABSTRACT
The psychoanalytic diagnostic enterprise follows a complex development and proceeds in stages and is removed up to a point from the psychiatric enterprise. Its final purpose is the recognition of the transference, which is its finally achieved form, its conclusion. In this chapter, the author presents the thoughts constructed by Gregorio Kohon: what he defines as the intimacy of the analytic situation. Otto has insisted on reiterating the need to establish, in the area of the analysis and of the analytic situation, a diagnostic structure that, because of its rational and objective character, contrasts with the ruptures of the intricate nature of the transference experience. Unconscious desire organizes psychic life in a structural conflict. Sigmund Freud’s summarizes the precarious economy of the conscious–unconscious balance of the ego and the id by the formula “satisfaction for one system, unpleasure for the other”.
