ABSTRACT
Attempting to reconsider the coherence of the Freudian psychoanalytic corpus is no easy task. This chapter points out that the motives underlying the proposition of new developments in psychoanalysis belonged to three registers: theoretical, clinical, and technical. Among the reasons that continue to sustain the initiative to embark on new developments in psychoanalysis are those that pertain to the register of clinical practice and, even more so, to technique. The hermeneutic vocation of psychoanalysis—instead of promoting the development of a process—has undoubtedly, among other things, accentuated the disequilibrium of this rapport in favour of the sexual. It could be argued that the psychoanalyst is extremely well-armed for venturing into the exploration of new territories with their idioms. The chapter explains the reasons for imposing important modifications pertaining to essential points of the psychoanalytic edifice, including their consequences for interpretative activity.
