Preliminary reflections on psychoanalysis and narratology
Antonino Ferro
The analytical situation is characterized by a peculiar feature: it involves a variable of relevant importance in the form of the analyst's mind. One cannot therefore talk about either the patient or the method without bearing in mind the ever-present influence of the patient-analyst as a couple acting in the psychoanalytic setting. So, in order to approach the psychoanalytic experience scientifically, what is needed is not empirical or objective tools, but an understanding of the peculiarity of the analytic experience.
Without going into details here of the differences between various psychoanalytical models, one point they all share is that the meeting with the analyst and his mind transforms "unthinkable contents" but which express themselves as symptoms or suffering, or as forms of behaviour, into emotions and thoughts that can be described, which eliminates or at least alleviates the symptoms.
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