Humorgebilde der Übertragung

Die schöpferischen Akte des Symptoms, die Träume und das Lachen

Abstract

Far from being a classifi cation of «mental illnesses» with objective signs, the analytic conception of symptoms considers them as a singular compromise formation that is enigmatic for a subject. This singularity, in addition to a perspective view of the enigma, stirs up the creativity of the symptom in the analytic cure, the moment the symptom meets with a «dreaming appliance» and it allows the movement of the subject’s fundamental questions in the transference. It is for this reason that the pre-text of the symptom allows the implementation of forthcoming transference formations, often producing a good laugh, the sign of internal conflicts being overtaken and the unveiling of desire’s truth. From complaint to humour, from suffering to laughter, the fertile movements initiated by the symptom’s language go through the complex and mobile exuberance of dreams, delivering interpretable relations and changes in the body and emotions by the means of speech. Is the subversive force of laughter caused by interpretation a way of healing the figures previously encased in the symptom?

Original title of the article: »Formation humoristique de transfert : de la créativité du symptôme et du
rêve jusqu'au rire«. Published in: Cliniques méditerranéennes, n° 89 (2014/1): »La clinique dans tous ses états«, S. 21–30.