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The psychoanalyst's ethics at issue – referred to a paradigm of complexity in the postmodern age – is to affirm as a fundamental value the recognition of determinism of unconscious desire, which implies a renunciation to any exercise of power, even the power of influence that can guide and support. Intending through interpretation of the partial truth of desire to be accomplished as a process that subverts the subject's relation with its own history, psychoanalysis, as it undoes the imaginary fixations of the subject, cannot predict the >politics< of the unconscious desire. Nor can it confront the possibilities of decision and choice of a relative and finite freedom. Using the interpretative elaboration of an intersubjective field of values, the psychoanalytic practice reveals the limits of a knowledge restricted by the context where the interpretation takes place. It differentiates between deciphering and decoding by emphasizing the attribute of the uncognoscibility of the unconscious Thus it reveals the cryptogram, a cipher designed as an ambiguous puzzle that is not exhausted by interpretation as a symbolic act, and it refers to the unrepresentable and the inaccessibility of the real.
This article aims to reflect on the possible contributions of psychoanalysis in relation to severely disturbed patients by means of the presentation of a clinical case. Beginning with the family history, the evolutionary process of the symptoms and identification movements of the patient are analysed. The observation of the transference dynamics is emphasised, showing how the desire of the analyst and his privileged listening will allow the patient some level of possible subjective structure.
While the concepts of >wish< and >wish fulfillment< have indeed remained central since the start of classical psychoanalysis, they are only weakly anchored both in theory and practice. It has become common today for psychoanalysts to use the term >to wish< in the sense of >to want< or >to intend.< As a first step, it will be emphasized that >wish< should not be constructed along the lines of >intention.< An examination of the relationship of >wish< to >wish fulfillment< is then followed by an evaluation of its practical significance for psychoanalysis and for our understanding of mental life in a general sense. Turning to an example dream sequence, we will arrive at the psychoanalytic core of the issue: the assumption of hidden, non-obvious, non-recognizable wish fulfillment scenarios. At this point in the discussion, a method of access will be sketched out – the dramaturgical approach – that, although it makes use of the idea of free association, does so in a manner that diverges from Freud's original recommendation.
Il coraggio di essere. L’esperienza di Erich Fromm, Locarno (Armando Dadò Editore) 2003, 131 p.
(2002)
Wege aus der Nekrophilie
(2002)
Das Unbehagen im Konsumismus
(2002)