Objectivity in the clinical setting

the double work on the evidences

Authors

  • Jorge L. Ahumada Associação Psicanalítica Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60106/rsbppa.v6i2.157

Keywords:

Psychoanalytic epistemology, Working through, Interpretation, Paradox

Abstract

It is argued that in the clinical work on the evidences the analyst’s interpretations are conjectures while the analysand keeps at each moment – for worse and for better – the role of epistemic arbiter. This, plus the paradoxes to be traversed on the road to psychic growth, sets the counterinductive-inductive nature of the pattern-realism setting clinical objectivity apart from the linearities implicit in theory-realisms.

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Author Biography

Jorge L. Ahumada, Associação Psicanalítica Argentina

Membro Titular da Associação Psicanalítica Argentina; Membro Honorário da Sociedade Britânica de Psicanálise.

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Published

2004-12-05

How to Cite

Ahumada, J. L. (2004). Objectivity in the clinical setting: the double work on the evidences. Psicanálise - Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Psicanálise De Porto Alegre, 6(2), 337–352. https://doi.org/10.60106/rsbppa.v6i2.157

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