castration

psychoanalysis

is simply another word for impotence: It is up to each person to invent a particular solution that builds upon his symptom.

Psychoanalysis has above all discovered any subject's impotence to achieve full sexual satisfaction. This impotence is designated by the term 'castration.' Further, psychoanalysis, with Lacan, has formulated that it is impossible for there to be any norm in the relation between the sexes. If there is no satisfaction and if there is no norm, it is up to each person to invent a particular solution, one that builds on his symptom. (laurent : 2004)

is not a technique but a discourse. There is no standard treatment. It is a lot like chess where only rules and typical moves at the beginning and end of a game.

Fifth principle: There is no standard treatment, no general procedure by which psychoanalytic treatment is governed. Freud used the metaphor of chess to indicate that there were only rules and typical moves at the beginning and the end of a game. . . . . . . Freud was no longer able to contain the complexity of the processes unfolding within the unity of a case. Far from being able to be reduced to a technical procedure, the experience of a psychoanalysis has only one regularity: that of the originality of a scenario through which all subjective singularity emerges. Psychoanalysis is therefore not a technique but a discourse which encourages each person to produce his singularity, his exception. (Laurent 2004: pdf) '

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