ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the psychic transformations, along with their respective evolutions, brought about by the analytic process. It deals with the psychic transformations in question where they are a model of reference, that is to say, where their richness and their scope are most legible. The chapter explains "borderline" cases, certain psychotic states, and a number of genuinely psychosomatic affections. It shows that the analyst does not often have the opportunity of recognising the long-term stability of the psychic transformations achieved — that is to say, long after the treatment has been terminated. The analysand's discourse and the analyst's interpretations or interventions form an ensemble with the positions the analyst adopts on the theory of the technique. Just when one is trying to account for what underlies the respective utterances of the analysand and analyst, one discovers gradually and increasingly as one proceeds a sort of community in the depths of their mental functioning.
