ABSTRACT

Depending on the vantage point one has, the interpretations that one is led to formulate present different degrees of saturation and explicitness. However, one point of view, one type of formulation, does not exclude another. The analytic work plays on both and all the harmonics between them. The position of the analyst must constantly fluctuate between the extremes. Of course, patients differ. And, above all, one and the same patient may change register at any moment, scarcely without noticing it. The analyst, on the other hand, must be aware of this and be able to modify his interpretative point of view, shifting along the whole range that goes from the more or less explicit depending on the position of the patient in the present moment, but also taking into account the requirements of the analysis in the long term.