Abstract
The notion of suggestion participates in the foundation of the psychoanalytic field and is part of its clinical vocabulary. Strictly speaking, such notion belongs to its prehistory, as the history of psychoanalysis only begins when Freud abandons hypnosis. However, the gradual elucidation of the suggestive phenomenon was built along the theoretical construction of psychoanalysis itself and, in particular, after establishing its link with the psychoanalytic concepts of transference and identification. This historical route (permeated by immanent, recurring and necessary reflections about this phenomenon that are present ever since the birth of psychoanalysis) has its peak in 1921, when Freud, in his work on group psychology and the analysis of ego, reaches its definitive explanation. Taking into account that suggestion forms, along with repetition and resistance, the three aspects through which transference manifests itself, this article seeks to present subsidies to finally conclude with propositions concerning the fundamental clinic-epistemological differences between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
Suggestion; Transfer; Psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy