Perceptions from the consultation room: the psychoanalyst and his/her own experience of learning

Abstract

In this article the author approaches his clinic observations, showing that, relating to everything considered apprenticeship and its troubles, the attitude taken by a psychoanalyst is different: before beginning to discourse about the subject, examines his/her own troubles with learning. Nevertheless, the psychoanalyst doesn't appropriate the word 'learning" with the same determination he/she exhibits when dealing with terms such as "sexuality" or "desire"; he/she maintains a certain inhibition, which is in itself a "trouble of apprenticeship", as it he/ she didn't feel at home and wasn't in his/her own right about this word. Presently there isn't anything like a psychoanalytical theory of learning and its ends. In this point the author risks an interpretation.