ABSTRACT
The chapter begins with a general note on the importance of metapsychology for the clinical work of the analyst in contemporary French psychoanalysis. Then follow specific considerations about psychoanalyses of depressed patients. In every patient with depression there is an avoidance of care, a Noli me tangere, which leads to characteristic forms of resistance in this group of patients. The deeper understanding and clarification of the specifity of the negation and more specifically how it engages language in depressed patients is considered as a current task of metapsychological research.
