Criticism of Jacques Lacan to the psychological conception of the transference
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transference, repetition, psychology, Lacan, LagacheAbstract
The interest of this work is to establish the debate of the IPA psychoanalysts in the 50s about the theoretical developments of analytical transference and its technical usage, to understand the background of the criticism by Jacques Lacan to the psychological concept of post-Freudian transference. We propose a theoretical counterpoint with two authors that serve as foothold to the lacanian criticism: Ida Macalpine and Daniel Lagache. We propose that the debate introduced by Lacan in his writing The direction of treatment and the principles of its power (1958) is not a solitary and original reading of the argument but rather the pursuance of a discussion already settled in the framework of the IPA where different alternatives were raised in order to solve the problem of the analytical transference in its phenomenal presentation as an unconscious repetition.
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