From belonging to identity: what is man?
Psychoanalysis, for what purpose?
By Claude BourreilleEnglish
After a series of images which emerge spontaneously, setting up the tension between death and destruction, on the one hand, and the intuition of life, on the other, the author wonders about the journey a person must make to achieve his “hominization” (which includes what Jung meant by the term “individuation”). Hence the question: what is a man? Neither his belongings nor his appearance suffice for the making; he becomes one, in the tension involved in reaching the freedom to be a subject. What role does the analyst, who must serve both rationality and the soul, play in this quest?