The psychoanalytic process and self-transcendence

Abstract

This article intends to reflect on some aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice, to help psychoanalysis evolve. It is therefore important to update psychoanalytic language and practice so that new potentialities and self-transcendence, in the sense of self-expansion are taken into consideration. It is of the utmost importance to take aspects of development and the relational realm into consideration, as well as the way through which the subject repeats their history, maintaining themself stagnant and in contact with representations that go back to their early relationships.

Key words:

• update
• self-transcendence
• relational life
• development

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Notes on contributors

Isabel Mesquita

Isabel Mesquita is a professor at the Universidade de Évora, Portugal, and a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is a titular member of Portuguese Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and a specialist in psychotherapy at Organization of Portuguese Psychologists.

Carolina Franco da Silva

Carolina Franco da Silva is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in training. She is an associated member of Portuguese Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.