Neurosis today; boundary problems.

Abstract

The paper begins by pointing out toimportance of topresent metapsychological crisis, in which is difficult to find a theoretical or technical concept tat could be accepted by most of to authors. The thinking about tophilosophy and methodologyof science has led some to consider a principle of theoreticalcomplementary in psychoanalisis, admitting that it is neccesaryto call for different theories to organize other groups of data.The problems of the limits are discussed: the limits of the concept of neurosis and the limits of interpretation in neurosis. The criteria for considering a patient as a neurotic is structural and it is based in toinscriptionof the symbolic dispositive which determines two sufficiently different conscious and unconsciousways offunctioningdueto repression. The diagnostic bases are not settled over descriptive elements, but over the nature of the transference that takes place in toanalitical situation, which allows to acceed to dynamicaland structural criteria that differences the neurotic transference of others forms that are not. The Oedipus still mantains its structural place in neurosis and neurosis has not lost importance in the present world. The increase of narcissism is questioned. Is it a real fact or does topsychanalisis development allow a more precise vision of the observation and description of tosame patients? In toconsideration of the limits of interpretation in neurosis two kinds of aspects are studied: the ones referring to the signification and the ones that have to do with the truth. The similarities and differences with the henneneutic interpretation are discussed along with the problems of the truthin the way that is required by natural sciences.