The ethical incidences presents in Freud’s “technical articles”

Abstract

At the beginning, we ask if it is coherent, ethically and doctrinally, to call the psychoanalysis’ practice a technique. Then, we investigate if there are, especially on the so called “technical papers”, evidences or at least clues that Freud’s treatment is based in a self-ethical psychoanalysis, not being possible to reduce it to the simple handlings of a technique. Based on what was his “auto-analysis”, on the following theory and methodology, Freud seemed to show that, in treatment, there is no carriage of the subject, and that the place/position/function of the psychoanalyst isn’t the position of a master and, above all, psychoanalysis shouldn’t serve no ideals of the proper “self”, or either cultural. This paper has the intention to demonstrate how it’s possible to infer, in Freud’s texts, an ethic about desire. As arising, this paper elucidates Freud’s theory firmness, especially in the ethical and clinical dimensions.