The pass: an articulation between autonomy and dependence

Abstract

The article analyzes the "pass" procedure created by Lacan in 1967 approaching some difficulties originated from the fact that it firstly contains and articulates three different senses - that of the singular experience of the passage from the position of patient to analyst, that of the institutional mechanism of naming and that of the social bond - and secondly that it is proposed at the same time that Lacan formulates the renowned principle "the analyst is only authorized by himself". The author will support the idea that it is exactly the articulation of the senses and the simultaneity of proposals that give the pass its originality and interest.

psychoanalysis; pass; autonomy of the subject; institutional dependence