ABSTRACT
The idea of the psychoanalytic process follows from the transformative power of the mind, which has a creative power: the mind is poiesis. The psychoanalytic process draws on a set of parameters and theoretical axes that have been developed ever since the creation of the psychoanalytic doctrine. The psychoanalytic process has to be conceived of as forever contiguous to the psychic processes at work on both sides of the analytic field. The main difficulty in using the term psychoanalytic process arises from the various shifts in meaning it undergoes, depending upon whether it designates: the unfolding of a procedure or programme, the subjacent mechanisms involved, or the purpose it originates in. The psychoanalytic process includes the idea of development due to the capacity for change of the two minds present. Suffering includes both anxiety and psychic pain, and is part and parcel of the human condition.
