The clinical presentation of patients who come to the psychoanalyst’s office has been changing in recent times. This paper discusses the validity of Freud’s basic proposals despite clinical transformations. The author believes that the basic postulate of an irreducible dynamic unconscious, only available through its derivatives, continues to be a central point for understanding contemporary malaise. Psyche arises in the relationship with the objects of the environment and with its internalized version. It is natural, therefore, that social changes, in habits, in relations between the sexes and the general tendency to transform everything into commodities, have an important influence on the clinical configuration.
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Dynamic unconscious, external objects, internalized objects, vulnerability, omnipotence.
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[Automatic translation from Spanish]:
In the title of this paper, the word «current» underlines the focus on a specific time, understanding that we live in an era that confronts us with a clinic different from the organizations described by classical psychoanalysis and with a social environment of accelerated changes.
This raises the debate regarding the validity of the theoretical bases formulated by Freud and the influence of social and cultural changes on clinical manifestations. In other words, how the social and cultural influence the construction of subjectivity and influence the principles of traditional psychoanalysis.
It is an open debate, which is nourished by clinical experiences and theoretical elaborations, as well as the exchange with other disciplines that help us understand human suffering in its different manifestations. Freud’s work marked a paradigm shift[…]
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