ABSTRACT
The question of the object must be posed in terms of its historical evolution, since the object in psychoanalysis, the analysis of the psychoanalytic object, and the object of psychoanalysis itself are closely interrelated issues. In A. Freud the object is part of a setting, a montage, to which it is simultaneously internal and external. The aim and object of psychoanalysis is the construction of the analytic object, which the analysand can carry away with him from the analysis and can make use of in the absence of the analyst, who is no longer the object of transference. One of the consequences was a ‘genetic’ psychoanalysis whose reduction of the structural dimensions of analytic thought to the merely genetic has seriously impoverished the complex temporal mechanisms of Freudian theory, suppressing, the crucial concept of deferred action. Psychoanalytic time became psychobiological time, distinguished by mere successiveness, evolutionary and normative.
