What does an analyst believe during the first consultation with a child and their parents?

Authors

  • Robert Levy Universidade Paris 13

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v30iespecialp78-85

Keywords:

belief, analyst's knowledge, sympthom, secularism, metaphor

Abstract

In this article, we intend to analyze the dimension of the analyst's belief, its place and dynamics in conducting an analysis. Based on Lacan's construction that "psychoanalysis is found in the place of treating the religiosity of the symptom or neurosis as a private religion," we will develop three instances of the analyst's belief – the a priori of their listening; the analyst's knowledge; the supposed knowledge – in order to consider a necessary secularity that involves the analyst in their work. To this end, we will analyze the case of a boy whose particular symptoms, which motivated the consultation, proved to constitute a sympthom of the couple. The direction of the treatment should therefore aim at the deconstruction of the belief in this sympthom that involves everyone – a deconstruction of the same type that involves the analyst in their end of analysis.

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Author Biography

  • Robert Levy, Universidade Paris 13

    Psicanalista membro da Analyse Freudienne. Professor da Universidade Paris 13, Paris, França. 

References

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Published

2025-12-24

How to Cite

Levy, R. (2025). What does an analyst believe during the first consultation with a child and their parents?. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 30(especial), 78-85. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v30iespecialp78-85