Abstract

AMENDOLA CONTART DE ASSIS, Maria Bernadete. First encounter with the psychoanalyst: potential -eld for the development of analysis. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2012, vol.46, n.4, pp.70-82. ISSN 0486-641X.

The aim of this paper is to focus on the first encounter between patient and analyst. The author suggests four aspects to be observed as peculiarities of this initial moment: (1) the attention to the patient's actions before arriving at the analyst's office. Those acts convey the patient's urgency, possibilities and resistance to analysis; (2) the patient's unconscious observation of the analyst's mental conditions to receive the projective identification (live what has to be lived); (3) the analyst's unconscious examination of his own internal availability for that patient; (4) the presentation to the patient of the singularity that characterizes the analytic relationship, the listening and the reach of psychoanalysis, not in verbal terms, but in gestures and attitudes that compose the exercise of the analytic function. The author suggests that this unconscious communication is the main factor in the decision of whether or not to start the analytic process. This explains the idea that the first meeting between analyst and patient is the potential field for analysis development, as expressed in the title of the article.

Keywords : first encounter with the analyst; analytic function; hospitality; projective identification.

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