A contratransferência como lugar de enlace entre epistemologia, ética e política na psicanálise freudiana.

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to understand how countertransference could represent a theoretical device that expresses the node beteen the epistemic, political and ethical requirements of psychoanalysis. As it is a question of articulating a concept, a theoretical and historically inclined work methodology was outlined with a view to favoring the path proposed in Freudian theory. In this way, the methodological outline led the order of priority in the presentations to begin with attention to the epistemic requirement, which particularizes the way in which Sigmund Freud conceived the production of knowledge about the unconscious throughout his work. This requirement underlined the relevance of the political and ethical parameters intrinsic to this and any other production in the field of knowledge, since they refer to the resonances of the auspices of power in human relations and intrapsychic privacy. Thus, as the exercise of power affects the psyche, its dynamics, inclinations and consequences are also noticeable in the meantime and are presented, above all, through the obstacles to the analytical process resulting from the affective mobilizations provoked in the patient and the analyst. In psychoanalysis, these mobilizations are called transference and countertransference. So, given that the proposed research was interested in countertransference from the outset, this concept was demonstrated through the theoretical path taken, with particular emphasis on the place of connection or the specific condition of possibility regarding the mutual incidence between epistemic, ethical and political requirements. Once this function of the concept of countertransference of representing a place of liaison had been sustained throughout Freud's work, the concept became the point of arrival through which it became opportune to make considerations pursued since the formulation of the main objective. Thus, through the study, it was possible to consider that this place of connection is of fundamental importance in what characterizes psychoanalytic theory. In addition, it also offers a criterion from which the psychoanalyst is guided so as not to lose sight of what Freud himself conceived about what a psychoanalyst is, through how he takes responsibility for the freedom inherent in his craft.