Some Criteria for the Timing of Confrontations and Interpretations. : 1951 : Georges Devereux
by Julia Evans on January 1, 1951
Published in International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (IJPA), v32, p19-24
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Cited by Jacques Lacan
As reference [2] in The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan : See here
p8-9 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : 1. What has gone before does not answer all the questions that may occur to a novice in this regard. But in gathering together the problems currently being discussed about the direction of the treatment, in so far as this discussion reflects present practice, I think I have kept things in proportion.
It goes to show the less important place occupied by interpretation in present day psychoanalysis – not that its meaning has been lost, but that the way of tackling this meaning is always a source of embarrassment. No author confronts it without first distinguishing it from all the other styles of verbal intervention that are not interpretation: explanations, gratifications, responses to demand, etc. The procedure becomes revealing when it gets close to the centre of interest. It means that even something said with the intention of leading the subject to an insight into his behaviour, especially in its signification as resistance, may be given a quite different name, confrontation, for example, if only of the subject with his own words, without meriting the name of interpretation, just because it is an illuminating remark.
One cannot but be touched by one author‘s attempts to force the theory of form, in order to find in it the metaphor that would allow him to express the resolution that interpretation brings about in an ambiguity of intention, the closure to an incompleteness that is nevertheless realised only after the event [2].
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