ABSTRACT
If the psychoanalytic process aims to achieve insight, then insight constitutes by definition the backbone of the psychoanalytic process. Analysis aims to offer the analysand a better knowledge of himself; what is meant by insight is that privileged moment of awareness. Throughout his determined investigation Freud affirms that what is fundamental in his method is knowledge. At one time it will be focused on memories, at another on the instinctual drives, but the aim is always knowledge, the search for truth. The word "insight" has gained ground until it has transformed itself from a word in ordinary speech into a technical expression. No one currently doubts, when he uses it, that he is employing a theoretical term. The word "insight" used by Kohler was then transferred from form psychology to learning theory and from there finally reached psychoanalysis. "The analyst's insight often enriched and advanced by creative patients, should be distinguished from the patient's insight.
