Psychoanalysis or suggestion

Abstract

Who is a patient?

A lover or an ordinary man is not considered a patient. The former, immersed in the narcissistic illusion of love, which restores him to the phallic position, is fulfilled, complete; his lover is everything to him, and he is everything to her. There are no cracks in this closed universe. It is the mirror illusion that consecrates the Ego as the Ideal.

The latter, on the other hand, is not a patient because he has submitted to the law. He obeys it, respects it, and follows it; and through this detour, by adhering to the dictates of his ideals, he recovers his Ego as the Ideal. This Ideal had faltered with the appearance of a third party, his father, who, by displacing him as the object of his mother’s desire, condemned him to a lifelong attempt to acquire the attributes assigned to him in order to restore himself as the Ideal. The law of the father: "This is how you must be".