Psychoanalysis and Institutions: a possible intervention

After explaining the paradigm shift made in Relational Psychoanalysis towards Classical Psychoanalysis, the author pauses to explore the novelty brought to the psychoanalytic model by the appearance of the concept of subjectivity and interaction. The subject is an organised structure, a system, which constructs in the relationship with the other the meanings that constitute it. Interactions codify the conscious and unconscious meanings and then reproduce them in order to guarantee the functional equilibrium of the system. From these premises derives a method which consists 1) in the observation of the interaction with the aim of grasping the system of meanings, mostly unconscious, which guide themselves and the other; 2) in the formulation of an intervention aimed at bringing out those aspects of rigidity, which are the cause of discomfort in the relationship, so that they can be put back into play. This method can be extended and applied in multiple areas such as an institution, a school, the user's home, etc., just as the object of the intervention also becomes relative: adult, child, adolescent, couple, groups, etc.