Abstract

DELOUYA, Daniel. Symbolism and construction: The analyst as a spokesman of culture. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2010, vol.44, n.4, pp.165-177. ISSN 0486-641X.

The attention to the challenges of listening within the psychoanalytical setting, and the constant concerns it involves, was joined occasionally with a discussion about the place of symbolism in dream interpretation and in the psychoanalytic clinic as a whole. This reflection enabled us to trace a solid line between symbolism and construction in psychoanalytical work. A connection which, curiously, led us to the parameters of psychoanalytic listening, its variants and the way the analyst becomes "in charge" of these. The study takes as it's starting point the opposition of symbolism towards the initial methods of psychoanalysis, its subsequent accommodation in these, and how it finally points the way to constructions in analysis. Both symbolism and constructions determine the constituent axes of psychic life, as well as those of psychoanalytic listening. Clinical situations are used to illustrate some of the points of our reflection on the foundations of clinical listening and its variations according to clinical demands and structures.

Keywords : symbolism; construction; primal-fantasies; spokesman; listening.

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