Difficulties in the transmission of psychoanalysis: a dossier commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Abstract

The present article aims to present the second volume of the Dossier in commemoration of the 100 years of publication of the Introductory Lectures to Psychoanalysis, by Sigmund Freud. Throughout the text, we follow the Freudian argument, indicating the difficulties in the transmission of psychoanalysis, especially in relation to the objectivity of medical formation, what is in opposition to the psychoanalytic treatment. The psychoanalysis is based on exchanges of words between the patient and the analyst and this practice, Freud warns, is not visible or palpable. In this way, it is necessary a change of interpretation of the phenomena in question. We also propose, at the end of the presentation, to comment, briefly, each article that composes the dossier.