STRUKTURA DOSETKE U PSIHOANALITIČKOM TRETMANU
WIT AND ITS STRUCTURE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC TREATMENT

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the applied significance of the work of wit. Freud’s analysis of wit made an invaluable contribution to the cultural heritage of the 20th century, and was used in the fields of philosophy, art and political science, while its actual clinical application was sidelined. This paradoxical situation did not begin to change until the second half of the 20th century, when major new clinical approaches emerged, most importantly the structural psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan. Lacan’s work provided a radical reassessment of psychoanalysis technique, including the conclusions Freud made in his observations of the unconscious “work of wit”. This article shows that this definition provided opportunities for a more direct reliance on the effects of the work of wit in psychoanalysis technique. The analyst is able to direct and support replacement mechanisms characteristic of the work of wit, and also to assist the analysand in transferring the focus of need from the object to symbolic mechanisms of satisfaction. The analytic process is also similar to the work of wit in the symbolic order of the analysand’s presence in sessions, The work of wit proves to be an impressive, large-scale structure that encompasses everything “binding” the subject to language and to the speaking Other.

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