Comunicação e Não Comunicação em Psicanálise: abordagem de seis autores

The human communication is developed from the infant’s early emotional development stages in the affective interaction with his mother. Baby and mother are merged and the silent communication between them must be considered. Silence is the most primitive and fundamental form of communication that should follow the individual throughout life because it is prior to verbal communication. Winnicott (1963) enhances the importance of silence, which should be considered in order to prevent rupture in the core of the self. Thus, the analyst must be very careful to manage the psychoanalytic technique in the patient-analyst relationship, since non-communication should not always be taken as resistance. The analyst’s noninvasive and nonintrusive attitude is essential to the development of the otherness, as well as the respect and legitimate and ethical right to non-communication. This essay attempts to make a comparison to Freud’s stand regarding psychoanalysis’s basic rule and Anna O’s talking cure and the non-communication stand of other analysts, such as Ogden, who forges the analytic third and challenges the psychoanalysis’s basic rule; Ferenczi, who links the patient’s silence to psychopathology; Nacht, who stresses the non-verbal communication and its relation to fusional and pre-objectal states; and Balint, who points to the importance of the patient-analyst relationship more than the analyst’s interpretation on the patient with basic failures in his development, which emerge in sessions during situations of silence.