Analytical act and the clinical power of the undetermined

This work aims to discuss the connection between the notions of analytical act and indeterminacy in the field of psychoanalytic theory. Based on Lacan’s proposition of the analytical act, it highlights the formulation called Klein Group, presented as a transformative sequence and able to illustrate the processes intrinsic to psychoanalytic experience. It takes into account some considerations Lacan extracts from the Cartesian cogito by shifting the category of the subject of positive rationality to that of a decentralized and evanescent subject. Finally, it highlights the indeterminate characteristic of the act as a clinical force that repositions the desiring subject. From the perspective of the treatment’s direction, the radical exteriority of the object causes the subject’s desire, thus resulting in the analyst as a residue of transformative operations.

Key words:
Psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic act; indeterminacy; object a