RESISTANCE, CONTRADICTION AND PSYCHOANALYTIC LISTENING IN THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS ABANDONMENT

Abstract

This article discusses concepts of psychoanalytic listening, contradiction, and resistance to understand possible causes that lead a subject to abandon a psychoanalytic process. The discussion is based on Freud's psychoanalysis ([1914] 1996, [1920] 1976, [1937] 1980) and on the dialectical understanding of the category contradiction proposed by Marx ([1867] 1983). We use, as example of therapy abandonment, one case by Silva (2016), who reflected on the end of psychanalysis and on the importance of the psychoanalytic listening in this process. Results show that resistance and contradiction, combined with the possible failure of psychoanalytic listening, it can direct the subject in the analytical process to break with the analysis