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The term '[[treatment]]' (''cure'') denotes the [[practice]] (rather than the [[theory]]) of [[psychoanalysis]].
(Although the term was inherited by [[psychoanalysis]] from medicine, it has acquired a specific meaning in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory which is quite different from the way it is understood in medicine. )
The aim of [[treatment]] is not to '[[cure]]' the [[patient]].
The [[clinical structure]]s of [[neurosis]], [[psychosis]] and [[perversion]] are seen as essentially 'incurable'.
The [[aim]] of [[treatment]] is to lead the [[analysand]] to articulate his [[truth]].
According to [[Lacan]], [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is a process with a definite direction, a [[structural]] [[progress]]ion with a beginning, middle and end.
According to [[Lacan]], [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is a process consisting of a beginning, middle and [[end of analysis|end]].
The beginning (or "point of entry into the analytic situation") is a contract (or 'pact') between the [[analyst]] and the [[analysand]].
The [[analysand]] agrees to abide by the [[fundamental rule]].
Following the initial consultation, a series of face-to-face preliminary interviews take place.
Firstly, they enable a properly [[psychoanalytic]] [[symptom]] to be constituted in place of the vague collection of complaints often brought by the [[patient]].
Secondly, they allow [[time]] for the [[transference]] to develop.
Thirdly, they permit the [[analyst]] to ascertain whether or not there is really a demand for [[psychoanalysis]], and also to hypothesise about the [[clinical structure]] of the [[analysand]].
After the preliminary interviews, the [[treatment]] is no longer conducted face to face, but with the [[analysand]] reclining on a couch while the [[analyst]] sits behind him, out of the [[analysand]]'s field of vision (the couch is not used in the treatment of psychotic patients).
As he [[free associates]], the [[analysand]] works through the [[signifier]]s that have determined him in his [[history]], and is driven by the very process of [[speech]] itself to articulate something of his [[desire]].
This is a dynamic process which involves a conflict between a force which drives the [[treatment]] on (see [[transference]], [[desire of the analyst]]) and an opposing force which blocks the process (seee [[resistance]]).
The [[analyst]]'s task is to direct this process (not to direct the patient), and to get the process going again when it gets stuck.
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Sexuality]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Help]]
(Although the term was inherited by [[psychoanalysis]] from medicine, it has acquired a specific meaning in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory which is quite different from the way it is understood in medicine. )
The aim of [[treatment]] is not to '[[cure]]' the [[patient]].
The [[clinical structure]]s of [[neurosis]], [[psychosis]] and [[perversion]] are seen as essentially 'incurable'.
The [[aim]] of [[treatment]] is to lead the [[analysand]] to articulate his [[truth]].
According to [[Lacan]], [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is a process with a definite direction, a [[structural]] [[progress]]ion with a beginning, middle and end.
According to [[Lacan]], [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is a process consisting of a beginning, middle and [[end of analysis|end]].
The beginning (or "point of entry into the analytic situation") is a contract (or 'pact') between the [[analyst]] and the [[analysand]].
The [[analysand]] agrees to abide by the [[fundamental rule]].
Following the initial consultation, a series of face-to-face preliminary interviews take place.
Firstly, they enable a properly [[psychoanalytic]] [[symptom]] to be constituted in place of the vague collection of complaints often brought by the [[patient]].
Secondly, they allow [[time]] for the [[transference]] to develop.
Thirdly, they permit the [[analyst]] to ascertain whether or not there is really a demand for [[psychoanalysis]], and also to hypothesise about the [[clinical structure]] of the [[analysand]].
After the preliminary interviews, the [[treatment]] is no longer conducted face to face, but with the [[analysand]] reclining on a couch while the [[analyst]] sits behind him, out of the [[analysand]]'s field of vision (the couch is not used in the treatment of psychotic patients).
As he [[free associates]], the [[analysand]] works through the [[signifier]]s that have determined him in his [[history]], and is driven by the very process of [[speech]] itself to articulate something of his [[desire]].
This is a dynamic process which involves a conflict between a force which drives the [[treatment]] on (see [[transference]], [[desire of the analyst]]) and an opposing force which blocks the process (seee [[resistance]]).
The [[analyst]]'s task is to direct this process (not to direct the patient), and to get the process going again when it gets stuck.
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Sexuality]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Help]]
