Hope, between ideals and reality

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Maria N. Mosca
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/1
Language Italian Pages 9 P. 114-122 File size 165 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2024-001008
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The author, like other authors, considers that hope is at the origins of every psychoanalytic path and that its maintenance is fundamental in the therapeutic process, as Freud had already announced in one of his writings in 1890. However, she asks herself why at this moment psychoanalysis needs to investigate this term and attempts in this short work to offer a reflection on it. He takes into consideration the rapid epochal change that society is going through and how difficult it is to maintain a healthy illusion, fight idealizations and create the trust at the basis of hope, but also how high the risk is of falling into the professional hypocrisy of which it has S. Ferenczi spoke. A short clinical vignette is reported to exemplify difficult moments of loss and renewed hope, dark paths between lighthouses and mirages in which hope presents itself as a laborious wait, a confident wait ready to grasp the human that presents itself in the patient as in the analyst at work.

Keywords: hypocrisy of the analyst, professional hypocrisy, the person of the analyst, negative, trauma, perversions

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Maria N. Mosca, La speranza, tra ideali e realtà in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 1/2024, pp 114-122, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2024-001008