On trans-individual identification at the service of the therapeutic agent
Keywords:
change in the analyzed and the analyst, fornari's cognitive-affective-cognitive circle, communication circuit, codes and supercodes of understanding, analog communication, analytical dialectic, cultural identification, operational identification, subjective psychology, sign, setting, symbol, symptom, transculturalityAbstract
A. The intrinsic semiotic or symbolic components of symptoms are specified.
B. The analogical communication of the symptom signals a minus and the attempt to fill it which, in the communicative circuit of the setting, is made known to a receiver by an emissary, through the use of linguistic symbols.
C. Signs and communications are cultural and subcultural phenomena.
D. Because they are arbitrary, symbols need a code to regulate them, even if this code is unknown to the subject. The analysis of the code is therefore an integral part of the analysis of the subject's lifestyle.
E. This makes Individual Psychology a subjective psychology (Ansbacher) in which, dialectically, those who propose suffering are confronted with those who propose growth.
F. To do this, a supercode of understanding must be established through an operation that is both cognitive and affective.
G. The operational identification of the analysis is therefore also a cultural identification. The analyst thus accepts the patient's lifestyle while at the same time asking them, contradictorily, to change, proceeding, at their discretion, along or against their defenses, but at the same time being modified themselves in a cognitive-affective-cognitive circle (Fornari)
