Psychoanalytic act or psychoanalyst's actions in the service of the process of subjectivation

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Abstract

Acknowledging the psychoanalyst's active role in the treatment process is a prerequisite for determining the specifics of the psychoanalytic act, that is, what distinguishes psychoanalysis from other psychotherapeutic approaches. First of all, it is important to consider what characteristics inherent in the psychoanalyst create special conditions for the beginning of the analysis, when the analyst offers himself as an object for transfer.

Then, in the process of treatment, he must maneuver between, on the one hand, the need to perceive, accept and endure the transference without prejudice, on the other hand, he must at a certain moment be able to interpret the transference ("refute") in order to make it subjective and accessible for patient understanding.