The term "[[treatment]]" ([[Fr]]. ''{{Top}}[[cure]]'') designates the [[practice]] -- as opposed to the [[theory]] -- of [[psychoanalysis]].{{Bottom}}
(Although ====Psychoanalysis====The term "[[treatment]]" designates the term was inherited by ''[[practice]]'' of [[psychoanalysis]] from medicine, it has acquired a specific meaning in -- as opposed to the ''[[Lacantheory]]ian '' of [[psychoanalytic theorypsychoanalysis]] which is quite different from the way it is understood in medicine.)
In particular, the aim of The term has a specific [[psychoanalytic treatmentmeaning]] is not (to "cure" the in [[patientpsychoanalytic theory]]") (seen by which is quite different from the way it is [[Lacanunderstood]] as "healing" or "curing" people in the sense of producing a perfectly healthy [[psychepsychiatry|medicine]]).
The ====Aim====In [[clinical structureparticular]]s of , the [[neurosisend of analysis|aim]], of [[psychosistreatment|psychoanalytic treatment] and [[perversion]] are seen as essentialy is not to "heal" or "incurable,cure" and the aim of [[analytic treatmentanalysand]] is simply to lead , in the [[analysandsense]] to articulate his of developing a perfectly healthy [[truthpsyche]].
--[[Structure|Clinical structures]], such as [[neurosis]], [[psychosis]] and [[perversion]] are essentially "incurable."
The [[clinical structureend of analysis|aim]]s of [[neurosistreatment|psychoanalytic treatment]], is to lead the [[psychosisanalysand]] and to articulate this [[perversiontruth]] are seen as essentially 'incurable'.
====Analytic Process====The [[aimtreatment]] of is a [[treatmentprogress|process]] is to lead the with a definite direction, a ''[[analysandstructural]] to articulate his [[truthprogress]]ion'' with a beginning, middle, and end.
--=====Beginning=====The ''beginning'', or "point of entry into the [[analytic]] [[situation]]", is a ''contract'', or "''pact''", between the [[analyst]] and the [[analysand]] which includes the [[analysand]]'s agreement to abide by the [[Fundamental Rule]].
[[Lacan]] argues that Following the [[treatment]] is a process with a definite directioninitial consultation, a series of face-to-face preliminary interviews take [[structural]] [[progressplace]]ion with a beginning, middle, and end.
These preliminary interviews have several aims.
According # They enable a properly [[psychoanalytic]] [[symptom]] to be constituted in place of the vague collection of complaints often brought by the [[Lacanpatient]], . # They allow [[time]] for the [[psychoanalytictransference]] to develop. # They permit the [[treatmentanalyst]] to ascertain whether or not there is a process with a definite direction, really a [[structuraldemand]] for [[progresspsychoanalysis]]ion with a beginning, middle and endalso to hypothesize [[about]] the [[clinical]] [[structure]] of the [[analysand]].
According =====Middle=====After the preliminary interviews, the [[treatment]] is no longer conducted face to face, but with the [[Lacananalysand]]reclining on a couch while the [[analyst]] sits behind him, out of the [[psychoanalyticanalysand]] 's field of [[vision]] (the couch is not used in the [[treatment]] is a process consisting of a beginning, middle and [[end of analysis|endpsychotic]] [[patient]]s).
The beginning (or "point of entry into the analytic situation") is a contract (or "pact") between the As he [[analystfree associates]] and , the [[analysand]] - which includes works through the [[analysandsignifier]]'s agreement to abide that have determined him in his [[history]], and is driven by the very [[process]] of [[speech]] itself to articulate something of his [[fundamental ruledesire]].
(The [[analysand]] agrees to abide by the [[fundamental rule]].)=====End===== Following the initial consultation, a series of face-to-face preliminary interviews take place. (These preliminrary interviews have several aims.) 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 This is really a demand for [[psychoanalysisdynamic]], 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 process which involves a couch while the [[analystconflict]] sits behind him, out of the [[analysand]]'s field of vision (the couch is not used in the [[treatment]] of [[psychotic]] [[patient]]s). 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 (see [[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.
==See Also==
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* [[Analysand]]
* [[Analyst]]
* [[Desire of the analyst]]
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* [[End of analysis]]
* [[Neurosis]]
* [[Perversion]]
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* [[Progress]]
* [[Psychoanalysis]]
* [[Psychosis]]
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* [[Resistance]]
* [[Speech]]
* [[Transference]]
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==References==
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[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
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