August Moldenhauer

Towards an Ethics of the Analysand August Moldenhauer

The question of the ethics of the analysand has its origins in lay readings of Freud and Lacan presented in this volume. If such a question is even possible, its source will be inspired by the intersubjectivity question in psychoanalysis and deciphering the hieroglyphics of Lacan's Schema-L. For the question of the ethics of the analysand stands as an inversion to the common ethical question concerning the analyst - which most often takes form in critique as an awareness in the counter-transferance. The critique against too summary a form of psychoanalysis, in which the judgment of the analyst trumps the conviction of the analysand, has been in question, in the light of the return to Freud, especially in focus in Lacan's Seminar VI on the Ethics of Psychoanalysis given in 1959-1960. "Towards an Ethics of the Analysand" by August Moldenhauer and Julia Trieb is published by nereusmedia.