This article describes the relationships between psychoanalysis and culture, most precisely the trend to immediatism that the current culture has been posing against the idea of process. May psychoanalysis be separated from culture, as a result of today's cultural demands related to time and money, and time and efficacy? And, if it does separate, would not this be fostering the development of alternative therapies? The author believes the current crisis psychoanalysis is going through has to do with its difficulties and attempts to comprehend the cultural effects of a consumerist society that abolished the value of words and does not have time to think about others nor about itself. Psychoanalysis must be rethought, not only in terms of the notion of process but also on what the author named as analytical act. He reflects on the analyzed patient and on the analyst, and makes metapsychological and technical considerations about the concept of analytical act, together with the idea of process. As for analyzed patients, the author believes they do not fulfill the classical expectations of the psychoanalysis technique; and in what concerns the analytical act, he thinks it is possible that the continuation of analytical acts becomes an analytical process: when an analytical act leads to the disclosure of a fake connection, the correction of a displacement between time and the subject will stimulate the interest of the patient's on his or her own psychic behavior. The problem the current culture poses against the analytical cure is defined in one essential point: psychoanalysis should build a wide framework so that the transforming power of instinct is able to find its representation.
Psychoanalysis; culture; historicisation; analytical process