Cas clinique

Abstract

Case histories may sometimes become so monotonously uniform that they fail to express the individual experience of analysis from which they stem, and are reduced to the core theories around which the analyst organises their account. How can we define these core theories in the light of Freud's work? Are they transcendental and, as such, universal in essence? Surely a 'successful' transcription of an analysis into words should allow both universal and individual elements to find their articulation, thus surpassing the contradiction in terms these two notions initially imply.