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- Title
La position psychanalytique: une position transdisciplinaire et politique.
- Authors
Ciccone, Albert
- Abstract
The “settings” of psychoanalytical work have evolved, because of external (social, political) constraints, or internal ones, i.e., the representations of the effects and processes of change in psychotherapeutic work. Nevertheless, one can remain a psychoanalyst while working in a plurality of contexts and settings. Psychoanalysis is not only defined by its praxis. One can defend, for example, an equivalence between the terms “psychoanalysis” and “psychoanalytic psychotherapy”, the latter referring to a practice which is adjusted to the patient’s reality, particularly its clinical and social dimensions. Whatever the setting, whether or not it is a classical analysis, the basis of the psychoanalytic position remains the same. It is an open-minded position and is fundamentally “transdisciplinary”. Such a position is centred on the core aspects of the caring relation—not to be confused with its artifices—, and it transcends the specific features of the concrete setting. The transdisciplinary approach, in psychological care, implies a “sharing” of the caring function. Parental care is a paradigm within this transdisciplinarity. It is always “caring”, because parenthood consists in the care of the child or of the infantile part of the adult who is in care. In this way, parental caring is a « transdisciplinary invariant ». Finally, the psychoanalytical position is also a political position. Psychoanalysis does indeed have a political function: it protects an awareness of subjectivity. The psychoanalyst is expected to take into account the reality of the body as well as social realities, including the political. The adjustments made to psychoanalytical practice are often in answer to political constraints, and in themselves they represent a political act.
- Publication
Filigrane: Revue de Psychanalyse, 2022, Vol 30, Issue 2, p9
- ISSN
1192-1412
- Publication type
Article