This paper aims to demonstrate theoretical and ethics reasons for the central importance of the concept of transference in psychoanalytic clinic. Theoretical: if the transference is, in Freud's words and in the words of psychoanalysts on recent researches, the condition of analysis, the supposition is that the patient could be conceived by the analyst as the one who has an unconscious functioning, resistances, and elaboration, conflicts and repressions and so on, depending on the psychoanalysis that one does. Ethics: although the concept was developed based on clinical treatment of hysteric cases, it had been reinforced, at 1910 decade, in the context of texts with directions to professional behavior at their daily work. Such analysis was abled by the terms of a Pragmatic Discourse Analysis, by Maingueneau (discourse as speech act, scenography and discourse genre), as a part of a general method, the Institutional Analysis of Discourse.
psychoanalytic clinic; transfer; discourse; discourse analysis