ABSTRACT
The history of ideas and the psychoanalytic movement have had a diverse influence on practices in different countries, and, in the face of external pressures, this local history has given rise to different solutions and modes of adaptation. Let the pressures exerted by the developments of the technical and social environment on practices. It will be recalled that so-called free analysis, mentioned by Freud in 'Lines of Advance in Psycho-Analytic Therapy' was already practised in the 1920s at the Vienna Ambulatorium and at the Berlin Institute. However brief and schematic, of the theory of the treatment in Lacan's work, but to isolate certain essential aspects of it in order to show the consequences they have on clinical practice. The aim of analysis is no longer the quest for illusory objects but the recognition by the subject of this fundamental lack of being, and the recognition of it in the signifier which is its rhetorical figure, in this case metonymy.
