A atitude terapêutica: a pessoa real do analista na relação clínica

Abstract

I begin this paper by describing my initial steps in the profession, pointing out which were the most disquieting questions and interests that were arisen at first within myself, while at the same time I name the authors who already influenced my ways of thinking and working in psychoanalysis then. The nature of those questions, more than the connection they bore upon the field of theoretical knowledge, was already following a different path: which other different therapeutical elements, besides technique and theory, I could be offering in the quality of a psychoanalyst, that could meet the patient s demands? The need for a deep thinking about the other phenomena related to the fact of my being there, offering myself as another possibility of a new experience of relationship, imposed itself, albeit as something apart from the binomial transference-conter-transference. Thence, the attitude and the quality of a psychonalyst s presence and singularity were gradually borne in on me as fundamental themes. Departing from that milestone, in the elaboration of this paper the real person of the psychoanalyst as the nucleus of a therepeutical attitude was placed in central position. The encounter of two human beings in the psychoanalytical setting is given a place in the field of ethics before the technique. To present those notions a discussion about the psychoanalyst s place in the clinical setting is undertaken, and his own way of being included in technique, as a ethical condition. The question I put forward here will be illustrated through a description of a patient s clinical case