Abstract

MARUCCO, Norberto C.. The analyst’s analysis: training analysis, re-analysis, self-analysis. J. psicanal. [online]. 2008, vol.41, n.74, pp. 187-196. ISSN 0103-5835.

The author proposes that training analysis is necessary to face the demands of today’s clinical practice, since it enables the analyst to develop theoretical, methodological and technical instruments, besides psychic resources. He maintains that if training analysis pertains to the person of the analyst, it also transcends to the psychoanalytic institution; in relation to the idea of permanent development of the analyst, of his relationship with the institution, and of each of its members with analysis, his own, or successive re-analyses. Analysis (and the termination of analysis), involves identifications, and imposes necessary liberating de-identifications. It is the training analyst’s duty to dismantle this idealized and narcissistic transference, sustained by the demands and idealizations that the very institution may promote. The author sustains that a fundamental aim of the analyst’s analysis is to develop his capacity for self-analysis which he can make use of, in service of his clinical practice and of his intimate reflections. Through self-analysis the analyst may discriminate between that which occurs due to a response to the patient’s characteristic transference, and that which is a counter transference response that emerges as a capacity to think what is unthinkable to the patient. It is a necessary boundary for the possibility of the construction of something new and fresh in the history of the psychoanalytical relationship, and in the memory of the analytical process.

Keywords : Institutional transference; Idealization; De-identification; Post-analysis.

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