ABSTRACT
It is very difficult for psychoanalytic associations to analyse the primal scenes of their own founding because these are linked to derivatives in the unconscious of interwoven transference and countertransference residues, often unresolved—and therefore passionate and/or symbiotic. Sigmund Freud the psychoanalyst, then, never stayed in Brussels. Had he done so, then perhaps he would have written a paper on Using different forms of unconscious communication, thus revolutionizing his conception of the unconscious, a topic that we will be analysing in some detail. Freud, then, did not bring the plague to Belgium. When we discuss psychoanalytic society, we cannot avoid evoking the institutional primal scene and family romance. If Freud the psychoanalyst had stopped over in Brussels, our primal scene fantasies would probably have been different. As psychoanalysts, we are permeated by the unconscious, influenced by the unconscious of the institution to which we belong, which existed long before we became psychoanalysts.
