Words in freedom

Where public speech withers, the unconscious falls silent. Psychoanalysis is not just a victim of totalitarianism; it is its structural antagonist.

The word is the primordial instrument of psychoanalysis, but not just any word. It is that which emerges without restrictions, the one that surprises even the person who pronounces it. The unconscious requires safe territories to manifest itself, just as a bird needs open space to spread its wings. Without guarantees of freedom, the repressed remains in the shadows.

The analytic device operates under a fundamental contradiction: it demands limitless speech within a rigorously limited framework. This paradox is sustainable only when the social pact guarantees that no word will be punished for its disturbing content. The setting protects, but only democracy legitimizes that singular pact we call transference.

Contemporary clinical practice confirms that under authoritarian regimes, psychoanalysis becomes deformed or disappears. When words must pass through the filter of fear, the analyst involuntarily becomes an accomplice to power. The unconscious, as an intimate territory, requires for its exploration the same oxygen as public life: the freedom to speak.

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