Abstract

LOWENKRON, Aurea Maria. Psychoanalytical clinical research: pathways. J. psicanal. [online]. 2006, vol.39, n.71, pp. 171-188. ISSN 0103-5835.

The paper is a discussion of the relationship between psychoanalytical treatment and research, considering their object, method and objectives. It includes a contextualization of Freud's contradictory statements about the subject. It is argued that if the psychoanalytical treatment and research coincide, then the psychoanalyst could not be neutral, in the sense that he should not have purposes or make atheoretical, exclusively empirical approaches in the psychoanalytical processes. On the contrary, the psychoanalyst could not be neutral because he takes part on the construction of the field by imparting the fundamental rule to the patient and by maintaining himself in a state of evenly suspended attention in the face of all that he hears. Moreover, the psychoanalyst has the purpose of investigating the unconscious activity of the mind and is guided in his work by some theoretical premises which will be modified by what emerges from the speech of the patient in a transferencial field. In the final part of the paper, an example of clinical research about a suicidal attempt in childhood is presented.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic clinic; Research.

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