Among the many reflections brought up by the debate on the presence of psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts in the area of mental health, the author discusses the place of Freud's proposals regarding the fundamentals of the field of psychoanalysis. To this end, passages by Freud that treat this question are analyzed, including points on metapsychology, analytic technique, and in passages where Freud discusses the possibilities of the applied psychoanalysis, including even therapeutics.
Freud; applied psychoanalisys; fundamentals; therapeutics