Future needs background Between the analytic worlds

摘要

Confusion as a result of increasing pluralism in practice, theory and research runs the risk of one becoming lost between the multiple psychoanalytic worlds. There is a constructive but difficult path to continuous orientation: namely, a consistent reference to the theoretical basis and to the historical roots as well as to the emerging future trends. This is always grounded by the reference to the work in the psychoanalytic situation, to the shared experience of the patient and the analyst, already intersubjectively conceptualized by Freud. The interested glance of the clinician on the rich theoretical discussion (discussed here with respect to the example of countertransference) can provide orientation and security, especially in difficult clinical constellations. For the further development of psychoanalysis, it requires a vivid variety, the input from many analytic worlds, especially from other human sciences, for if we are not actively involved in the discourse on the psyche, we are threatened with being dwarfed.