The concept of a frame in psychoanalysis. The denial function in the après-coup process

French psychoanalysis

Abstract

This article discusses such a fundamental psychoanalytic concept as a frame, as well as the process of après-coup. The author tells in detail about the origin of the concept of frame in the works of well-known psychoanalysts, dwelling in more detail on the conceptualization of the frame in the works of José Bleger, the article presents clinical examples of José Bleger and Bernard Chervet, illustrating the process of actualizing the patient's past experience in an analytical situation, on the example of which one can see the unfolding of the process of après-coup in the psychoanalytical work.