Abstract

URRIBARRI, Fernando. Contemporary clinical thinking: a historical vision of the changes in the analyst's work. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2012, vol.46, n.3, pp. 47-64. ISSN 0486-641X.

The main objective of this work is to contribute to the understanding of the changes occurred in contemporary psychoanalytic practice, from a historical and conceptual point of view. The article approaches the three successive historical phases of the activity of the analyst (following the thread of theorization and countertransference): Freudian, post-Freudian and contemporary. It focuses particularly on the changes introduced during the passage from the second to the third model: from a "totalizing concept" of countertransference - which includes the totality of the mental functioning of the analyst and the nucleus of the post-Freudian clinical model - to the "framed conception" of countertransference in a more broad and complex contemporary vision of the analyst's psychic work (in which the notions of framing and of "internal framing" are central, and in which countertransference is framed and is subordinate to the analyst's clinical thinking).

Keywords : Contemporary psychoanalysis; Freudian model; post-Freudian model; contemporary model; clinical thinking; countertransference; psychic work of the analyst; framing; internal framing; tertiary processes.

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