This paper discusses the differences between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and places the framework and objectives of their respective methods in accordance with the principles of the Jean Laplanche's theory of generalized seduction, as well as the project of emancipation that this theory confers to psychoanalysis. With these foundations, it argues that there are close relationships between theory and practice, that the practice of psychoanalysis always implies the choice of a metapsychological model, and that all models cannot be taken as equivalent, considering their goal of transformation, an aim which is inherent to psychoanalytic practice today.
Psychoanalysis practice; theory of generalized seduction; metapsychology