ABSTRACT
Co-thinking is utilized to describe a reciprocal process of the development of associative activity that is made possible by the double fundamental rule in the analytic situation. The involvement of the thinking person of the analyst, through the induction effect that makes him the receiver of what is thought by the analysand, invalidates the idea of “pure” listening: the roles of “interpreter” and “interpreted” are thus made more complex, for the analysand also “listens” to the analyst. The association between two thoughts may thus be explained by their latent connection, their structure and by the cathexis of this link, the actualisation: a double mechanism is thus involved. The associative dispositions depend on formal analogies, past habits or purposive identities, but these do little more than outline the current flowing through the cathexis. However, associativity does not involve the space of just one psychic apparatus, and it is in this respect that there is “co-thinking”.
