Contemporary Psychoanalytic Clinic

CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC CLINICAL PRACTICE TRENDS AND THEIR POSSIBILITIESABSTRACTPsychoanalysis is structured around two inexorably interconnected axes. Besides a praxis supported by ethics, it calls the analyst to occupy the place of critic of the culture he witnesses. In the name of this structure Lacan warned that he who cannot be attentive to the subjectivity of his time should give up being an analyst. Under the echo of this warning, the present work addresses two critiques of Freud to the culture he witnessed and, from there, proposes some qualities of the work of this great master and the invaluable contributions of Lacan and the very virtue of psychoanalysis as outlets for the resolution of clinical and theoretical impasses that analysts face today.