Abstract

SANDLER, Paulo Cesar. Freie Einfälle: the verbal irruption of the unknown. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2008, vol.42, n.2, pp. 43-57. ISSN 0486-641X.

The author proposes to analyse the concept freie Einfälle (“free associations”). The method is to match the clinical experience in psychoanalysis with a description of the semantic field of the verbal formulation in the German language. Both allow to reach: 1) the paradox involved in Freud’s verbal formulation; 2) the notion of psychic determinism as a probabilistic fact (rather than causal as it is regarded more usually than not). This probabilistic ethos of the free associations determine their form in a precise, unique way (therefore, determined) which means, truthful, as an indication of the psychic fact (or truth) which generated it. Therefore, I suggest the following vectors of the verbal formulation, to be amended by those of “flow” or “transitory flux” in perpetual motion: 1) of an association which is not rational nor the overtly explicit ideas stemming from the patient (akin to the manifest content of the dreams), but of a formulation that constitutes itself in the free transit between conscious and unconscious, mediated by the contact barrier (as defined by Freud and Bion); 2) of an association between a free state of mind which may intuit the numinous realm which links patient and analyst (the analyst’s free floating attention); 3) of an association nearer to the becoming and to be in atonement with oneself, corresponding to the German romantic concept of einfuhlung. The present study may also serve as an invitation to the scholars versed in the rich German language. They are entitled to evaluate this attempt of an analyst who is a layman in the German language, but interested in it.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Free associations; To become; To be at one; German romantic movement.

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