Ferenczi and the goals of psychoanalytic treatment

authenticity, neocatharsis, childishness

Authors

  • Daniel Kupermann IPUSP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v24i2p182-194

Keywords:

Sándor Ferenczi, 1873-1933, Psychic trauma, Disavowal, Neocatharsi, Authenticity

Abstract

We start from Sándor Ferenczi’s formulation that the end of the analysis would consist in overcoming the “lie” on the analyzand’s part, indicating this is the symptomatic response to the “disavowal” (Verleugnung) suffered in the traumatic situation. In this sense, the path of an analysis would imply: overcoming the “identification with the aggressor” deriving from the traumatic experiences, providing the gesture inspired in its authenticity to the analyzand; the “neocatharsis” needed for the subject to work through the narcissistic cleavage, getting rid of the incorporated objects; and the “childishness”, in the form of the rescue of the evocative word typical of children’s affective language.

 

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Published

2019-08-30

How to Cite

Kupermann, D. (2019). Ferenczi and the goals of psychoanalytic treatment: authenticity, neocatharsis, childishness. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 24(2), 182-194. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v24i2p182-194