Psychoanalysis' Method and Psychoanalyst's Identity
Gennaro Saragnano

The author presents some reflections about what he considers to be the differences between method and technique in psychoanalysis, emphasizing that it is the allegiance to the method that sanctions the appartenance to psychoanalysis. The technique varies necessarily according to the used theoretical models, whereas rendering conscious what is unconscious remains the unmodifiable essence of psychoanalysis, as well as the foundation of the psychoanalyst's identity. The author attempts to show, in conclusion, how the conceptual separation between method and technique is strongly present in Freud's mind since the beginning.