ABSTRACT
Leaning on the critique developed by Theodor Adorno in Revised Psychoanalysis, this chapter examines the prevalence of what is referred to today as the “analytic dialogue” along with the consensual and narrative requisites it implies. It also considers the attempt to distinguish between the concrete “clinical theories” based on direct observation and the abstract “metapsychological theories.” Besides the quasi disappearance of the unconscious as a concept in favour of the vaguer notions of “inner world” or Self, the recusation of unconscious determinism in its wild radicality and the gradual obliteration of humanity’s “inhumane reality” have come to prevail. As evidenced by interpersonal psychoanalysis or fictionalism, the abandonment of the repetition compulsion has led to a fundamental alteration of the function of the transference and its interpretation, which impacts on the role of regression and psychic reality.
