ABSTRACT
We shall attempt to ascertain the conditions under which construction in psychoanalysis may be considered valid, i.e. those conditions that ensure that the construction truly corresponds to conflicts in the patient’s own psyche and is not a theory ‘constructed’by the analyst and inserted from outside the movement of the transference.We shall also try to demonstrate, using a clinical example, the importance of construction as a means of helping the patient to overcome an ‘impasse’ situation in his analysis.
