ABSTRACT

In this book the author explores the particularities of the status of the method in psychoanalysis, linked to the specificity of unconscious psychic processes. If the method aims at ensuring a level of technical mastery, it must also make sure that analytic treatment does not become an 'application' of knowledge. A modern conception of the analytic situation implies going beyond the classical pair of 'setting-interpretation'. Starting out from the postulate of a transferential dynamic of the encounter, the author brings into play the pair 'analyzing site-situation'. The 'analyzing situation' emerges from the utilization, in a found-created mode (Winnicott), of an initial site constituted by a set of means put at the patients disposal. The analyzing situation includes patient and analyst in a self-organizing structure. The notion of a site makes it possible to approach the difference between psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy differently: each site has a 'logic', an intrinsic functional coherence, which have their own incidence on the therapeutic process.

part I|87 pages

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

The adventure of the method

chapter Two|7 pages

The Sirens’ song

chapter Three|6 pages

Clinical reports, interanalytic exchanges 1

chapter |4 pages

Addendum A

Constraint of method and/or constraint of finality

chapter |5 pages

Addendum B

Psychoanalytic encounter and consultation

part II|98 pages

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

The specter-spectrum of the superego

chapter Five|44 pages

Lord Jim or the shame of living 1

chapter Six|16 pages

Tender humour

chapter Seven|14 pages

Freud and the shadow of the superego 1

chapter Eight|12 pages

Work of culture and superego

chapter Nine|8 pages

A child is being talked about 1