Abstract:
It can be seen how, throughout the history of psychoanalysis, perhaps inadvertently, the idea of suffering was elevated to the status of an object that functions as a necessary if not sufficient reason to undertake an analysis. I argue that this is due because, in spite of Freud’s efforts to separate psychoanalysis from medicine and religion, analysts still remain more captive to Judaic-Christian morality than they would like to admit. It would be appropriate to discuss the incidences on the application of the psychoanalytic method and how it affects the claim of an ethics that would be inherent to psychoanalysis.
Keywords:
psychoanalytic ethics; moral; jouissance; suffering; psychoanalytic clinic