En torno a la ética y la trascendencia en psicoanálisis, el deseo que siempre es deseo

Abstract

Relational psychoanalysis is firmly rooted in ethics, but not in ethics in its formal sense, that which we commonly call moralism, but in the response to the patient's demands and needs, an ethics that is linked to the yearning for transcendence that always nests in the human spirit and which, moreover, must always preside over patient-therapist relationships. Men and women are beings in whom desire constantly throbs, an inextinguishable desire to which they give different names and expressions, desire for pleasure in its various forms, for contact with others, for friendship, for love and also for power, for mastery of nature, of time, of space and of the course of their own existence. In this work it is emphasized that the most cursory investigation of the course of the history of humanity shows us that it is always driven by the desire for something to which it has been given different names and forms, goals, purposes and achievements, variegated and constantly contradictory to each other, but with a common denominator that, finally, links and unites them, the fact that the desire is never completely satiated, and this, in the end, pushes to a search that never rests, and in this search one reaches the most sublime of the human spirit, and also the most degrading of its nature. The different orientations of relational psychoanalysis, some of which are shown in the pages of this paper, highlight the different means by which we therapists try to help those who suffer and demand our help, and the conclusion is that most of them are entirely valid as long as they are accompanied by the love they have lacked in the early stages of their existence.