Abstract:
The present article aims to make considerations about an obstacle that was presented during the clinical psychoanalytic work undertaken with patients admitted to a general hospital: the protocolled handling of the transference. The scope of work of the hospital environment and its daily routine was circumscribed, and thus the psychoanalytic field was outlined. Through a clinical vignette, difficulties that are unique to the hospital’s daily routine and which may result in deadlocks to clinical work were discussed. We conclude that maintaining a psychoanalytic mode of listening does not depend on the context, being intimately related to the psychoanalyst’s personal trajectory and studies. As such, a constant interrogation of one’s practice, through supervision and personal analysis, is necessary so as to suspend any assumptions regarding the case.
Keywords:
psychoanalysis; hospital environment; psychoanalytical listening; psychoanalytic clinic