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Teresa Olmos de Paz - A Reflection On Some Concepts In Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

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The Concept of Construction in Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis does not limit itself just to find what has been already given, but is able as well to produce new symbolization processes from it. When an analyst exerts this function of reverie within the analytical space, he or she is instituting something that was not there before. Those primary elements metabalized by the mother and also by the analyst through the reverie function, when transformed in elements, are able to be symbolized and give rise to a symbolic development. Whenever this function fails or the beater elements become excessive, the subject falls prey to disintegration processes that the analysis will have to reconstruct.

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