A structural diagnostic and its relationship with transference in analytical treatment. In this article my aim will be to reflect, from a psychoanalytic view, on the question of structural diagnosis in a clinical case and its relationship with transference. Based on the phenomenon described during the sessions I pinpoint several possible structural diagnosis of the case - neurosis, psychosis, or perversion - and highlight the fact that the diagnosis can only be considered based on the specificity of the transference relationship established with the analyst. A characteristic of this specific clinical case was that it allowed us to analyze the role the poetry and music significant played in facing the senselessness of death.
Psychoanalysis; structural diagnosis; transference; poetry