ABSTRACT
The scope of the found object is expanded beyond that which is made explicit in analytic theory and practice so as to include that by which both theory and practice may be reformulated. Vital, resilient and ever-decathectable, the found object that is psychoanalysis may now relinquish its fantasy of truth and resolution. As the ground for an experience of exteriority, psychoanalysis waves its claim to clinical neutrality (as indifference) and assumes instead its function as differentiation (as in-difference). Coming to terms with its limits and vulnerabilities is thus precisely what sets psychoanalysis apart from most other theories and therapies; it brings the practice closest to actual human experience and endows it with both clinical empathy and intellectual relevance.
