TY - JOUR A1 - Mesquita, Isabel A1 - Franco da Silva, Carolina T1 - The psychoanalytic process and self-transcendence JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 2, 2022), pp. 094-099. N2 - This article intends to reflect on some aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice, to help psychoanalysis evolve. It is therefore important to update psychoanalytic language and practice so that new potentialities and self-transcendence, in the sense of self-expansion are taken into consideration. It is of the utmost importance to take aspects of development and the relational realm into consideration, as well as the way through which the subject repeats their history, maintaining themselves stagnant and in contact with representations that go back to their early relationships. Y1 - 2022 ER -