Hvad blev der af det »analytiske arbejde«?

Et bidrag til diskussionen om kriterier for terapeutiske forløb i psykoanalysen fra Freud til Lacan

Abstract

Psychoanalytic therapy is considered a process with a development of its own rather than a cure to be evaluated on its results. This is not an external view of psychoanalysis, but is inherent in Freud's concept of psychical work. This expression, and other compounds with Arbeit (work, working), in Freud's writings, expresses both the spontaneous development and nature of the psyke and the particular development during therapy. - It is maintained that therapy, basically, is to reconstruct the relation between the psychically isolated material on one hand and the spontaneous development on the other. This reconstruction is possible through a specific mental work called Assoziation (binding together, connecting), in the first writings of Freud; later, it is called "free associations". - This implies that, in the psychoanalytic process, the aet of recollecting and of bringing repressed material back to consciousness must be looked upon as associative processes taking place in speech. It is impossible to distinguish between "real" memory and "reconstructed" recollections. In this way there is no discrepancy between recollections and that of which there has never been any consciousness. - lf the associative working is considered as foliowing the same rules as the dream work, the therapeutic association has two basic patterns which correspond to the reverse functions of displacement and condensation. This can be related to Lacan's description of the metaphor and metonymy; and two types of therapeutic interventions can then be specified.