Psychoanalytic Office
As the unconscious is the spring of human existence, influencing it and operating within it through speaking brings lasting changes. Psychologists and psychotherapists know this, as it is possible to determine in their field. The conclusions from research on various types of psychotherapy, referring to meta-analyses, are unequivocal: psychotherapy works, but it must be repeated from time to time because the therapeutic effect, in other words, relief, loses its strength. In the case of psychoanalysis, the therapeutic effect increased over time after the therapy ended. This means that the patient became independent from the Other, finally able to perform acts that had a real impact on their life, and thereby on their satisfaction with life. Living in the past is a neurotic's curse, a trap they fell into at an early stage, resulting in experiencing things as if they did not concern them. At the same time, they affect them in the most painful way, through the feeling of missed opportunity or chance. At some point, it becomes difficult to ignore this state of affairs, as life itself is being missed. A psychiatric diagnosis may be an insufficient answer to bring relief and often serves, at best, to keep suffering in check through pharmacology. Sometimes, it is a necessary step on the path to treatment. It is certainly not the final step. Psychoanalysis is not the only method utilizing speech as a healing tool; however, it is the only method that treats speech and talking particularly seriously. In speaking, the unconscious emerges, and the speech of the one analyzing moves towards an increasingly clear emphasis on individuality, accompanied by a gradual disappearance of unnecessary identifications, impoverishments, and symptoms. Under the influence of psychoanalysis, what becomes possible is a kind of certainty. It is there that one finds freedom, relinquishing that which is based on imagination or delusion.
Psychoanalysis allows one to live considering their own desire. This dimension is not taken into account in the fields of psychology and psychotherapy. The spectrum of satisfaction is broader and deeper within psychoanalysis because the process allows the analysand for the first time to go beyond beliefs, judgments, and thoughts, entering the realm of the unconscious. This is impossible elsewhere due to the fact that the unconscious, which directs the subject who knows nothing about it, is what remains overlooked and unrecognized within psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. This happens because of the nature of mastery in these fields: the knowledge permitted within these sciences remains limited by approved methods, which aim to capture the whole while renouncing individuality. It is a necessity of mastery to know nothing about how things actually are, the essence of which is desire. To grasp the unconscious, it is necessary to relinquish this pretense and refrain from the automatic assessment and continuous attempts to patch up one’s speaking and actions, aimed at maintaining their impossible coherence. This is precisely what Freud demonstrated, and for this reason, he is identified with something difficult to accept: a person is the master of their psyche to a much lesser extent, or at least much less uniformly than they thought. For what governs is not what the "I" wants to say about itself, but where the "I" can speak from, remaining unrecognized.
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