Construction: The Psychoanalysis of Contents or of Processes? Transformation or Defense?
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If we consider the evolution of the Freudian model presented in his Studies on Hysteria in 1895 in his later papers « Analysis terminable and interminable » and « Constructions in analysis ” of 1937, we can isolate the development of two effectively parallel ideals. The first consists of the repressed memory that constitutes the origin of all the symptoms that the analyst will have to construct in order to compensate for the patient’s incapacity to remember. The second idea points to the existence of alterations in the ego that are produced under the action of defence and that are compared to an « infiltration » or “ state within a state » which is essentially independent from the rest of the ego and opposed to reality and analysis. These alterations in the ego can deviate and alter the construction that is proposed by the analyst and require a specific process of reparation, without which the cure will remain symptomatic. The author proposes to consider the contribution of post-Freudian analysts, especially Bion, in terms of a dialectic between a psychoanalysis of contents and a psychoanalysis of processes. The clinical problematic of construction thereby becomes more complex and covers a wide range of issues extending from the potential for transformation to the rather more worrying, in the sense that it is potentially pathogenic, potential for defence.
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