Affects in the analytic experience and afterwards
In view of the theories that base the essence of the human being on the affects as indices of authenticity, Lacan supports their character, at the end of an analysis, in an unpredictable way. From then on, in addition to the debate about the place of affects for the human being, it is a matter of knowing if the experience of analysis allows an accommodation in the way in which a subject experiences affects, a way that would be of the order of a normalization. Or rather, can one postulate a singularity in the relation of a subject to his or her affects? These questions lead to another: do affects exist in a manner that might be unique to a subject who has made an analysis? What are the affects that permit the analyst to orient him or herself in the treatment? What is the place of the affects of the counter transference in the treatment? We will attempt to show what changes radically at the level of affects for someone who has made the choice of speaking to an analyst. In other words, how is the subject, affected by the unconscious, affected by the experience of analysis?