The role of affect and motivation in the psychoanalyst at work, Florence Guignard

According to Freud a psychoanalyst can hardly work without having beliefs, essentially the belief in determinism in psychic life. The author begins by considering the necessary premises for the birth of psychic life, and, passing through the role of negation in motivation and thought processes, she arrives at the role of belief in the economy of affect and motivation. Referring to Freud's article on Negation (1925), the author considers that belief operates at the level of the judgment of attribution, and plays a fundamental role both in the etiology of psychic disturbance and in the motivation of the psychoanalyst to maintain the setting and to interpret.
To the extent that the judgment of existence (reality) appears as a second step, the author believes that it is more exposed to destrutiveness than the judgment of attribution that emerges earlier in the development of the psyche. The author examines some of the consequences of this situation within the transference, in relation to the regression within the analysand of his judgement of attribution to the polarity of the pleasure/unpleasure principle, and in relation to the intensity of the conflict within the analyst, inasmuch as the analyst takes onto himself the projection of certain painful aspects attributed by the patient to his internal objects.