This article goes into the question of narrative construction in the clinic and in theoretical production. The author uses Freud’s concept of construction as the most suitable to describe the psychoanalytic technique. But the author re-signifies the concept based on narrative, and calls it construction in analysis of the transference. It has evolved to the concept of historical-narrative construction, from the point of view of the narrator in the analytic field (“patient,” “analyst,” and “written case”). The author then distinguishes the concept from the reconstruction of factual history and from interpretation.
Narrative; construction; analytic transferential field; ego-narrator; historical-narrative construction