에로스와 심리치료: 사랑을 통한 치료로서의 정신분석

Abstract

Psychoanalysis has emphasized a purely analytical, neutral attitude, and a prudent attitude towards the patient in order to establish and maintain the analytical relationship. This careful and analytical attitude has made psychoanalysis understood as a cold therapeutical treatment. But Freud, who started theinitiated psychoanalysis, viewed psychoanalysis as the treatment by love, which as could be was seen in the his letter to Jung. In addition, Freud repeatedly stressed that psychoanalysis is a love-based therapy. This seems to conflict with the attitude of a purely analytical and neutral analyst. What, then, does the treatment by love mean? The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the meaning of the treatment by love which is what Freud wrote in his letter to Jung, following the history of the psychoanalytic development. In addition, this paper attempts to explain how Eros, the driver of life that Freud introduced in his later article, "Civilization and its Discontents," relates to healing through love. Psychoanalytic therapy is based on transference, which is one of the central ways to access the Unconscious, the hidden part of our psychic psyche . Without transference, the emotional relationship between the analyst and the patient does not occur, and successful treatment can notcannot be guaranteed. Freud describes transference as a recurrence of love, and analysts become objects of patients' sexual drive through transference. Adequate satisfaction of the relationship colored by transference is the basis for performing psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This concept of adequate satisfaction is further extended through the concept of projective identification, surrogate organization of the mind, through object relations theory. Becoming a surrogate organization of the mind for the patient through projective identification has become a key process causing of healing in psychoanalysis. Through this study, the author argues that Freud's treatment through love is the reappearance of the erotic situation of the initial object relationship and the proper satisfaction of it. This study argues that the appropriate satisfaction of Eros in the context of the transference where love has recurred, can be interpreted as a process by which the therapist becomes a surrogate organization of the mind for the patient which that treats emotions that the patient has not digested. This will be the basis for future research to elicit counseling resources from the concept of incarnation of Christianity that emphasizes the virtues of love and sacrifice.