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Theory as fiction, Maud Mannoni

There is in the reading of books the sense of smell about the fundamentals of the analytic experience. Are few, but one of them is, no doubt, theory as fiction of Maud Mannoni (1979).

In each chapter, Mannoni tricky questions traditionally addressed, namely the training of analysts call (here drawn a tour of the singular vicissitudes in France, Germany, Argentina and the U.S., the common denominator, remember, that the divisions within the societies of psychoanalysis have always had this point), the child called analysis and analysis of so-called psychosis (with the corresponding threat to pedagogization and psychiatrization In each case, meant for the analysis open to new latitudes), among many other issues that are far from being resolved.

And yet, who do the reading with eyes analyst feels that perhaps remind platitudes, basic aspects of analytic practice is worth recalling, since losing to hearing loss is synonymous . For example, the antinomy between the place of the analyst and the "analytic institution" (a contradiction in terms, if any), the analyst's relationship to knowledge and its place in the transfer, the fact that knowledge of which is in the direction of a cure is on the side of the analysand, which, as everyone knows, who knows and knows not in the patient hears the analyst and media interventions to invent (because, as Lacan said, citing a maximum Max Jacob, "the true is always new) a knowledge of the causes of his desire. (A desire to own and alien whose time truly silent screams significant envelope of symptoms).

Mannoni analysts warn, especially, the risk of running the deafening listeners who tend to cover their ears with wax theory. Remember that, far from a parapet in Freud the doctrine could be fiction or myth status, including delirium, and that, for him, the resistance in the analysis came from the analyst (a saying that Lacan is often attributed to , who also claimed), his inability to reinvent itself in the singularity of each case. When the founder of psychoanalysis joined names Groddeck, Winnicott and Lacan (Ferenczi ghost hovers also there), providing the author with its threads to weave a tapestry whose relief shows ; subversive elements necessary for the practice that even today we know under the name of psychoanalysis psychoanalysis remains.

Maud Mannoni, La théorie comme fiction, Seuil, Paris, 1979, 203 pp.
(English edition in Crítica, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1980.)