Les névroses mixtes: une leçon de méthode nosographique

Abstract: Freud mentions the term of mixed neurosis in 1984. F. Villa goes back into this notion which has become obsolete and which is, in fact a lesson in clinical method. Freud, standing at crossroads, takes leave from the german school of anatomic-pathology (Meynert) and the french school of neuropathology by expanding the diagnostic capacity of the clinician. In doing so, he emphasizes the analytical method. To recognizie the illusion of this mixed neurosis makes possible deconstruction and reconstruction by gathering different psychic mechanisms. To deconstruct the setting of mixed neurosis brings in temporality in the bulding of a symptomatic whole and makes possible a genealogy of neurotic forms. The symptom is not anymore a fixed object, which would be inquestionable from the point of view of objective perception. It ceases to be a dinstinctive point in order to become a topographical component among a complex. This critical point is the dynamic scene of the instictual activity and the result of an autoplastic modification. It consists too in an action practise on some objects in the world. In analytical treatment, to think and to seize the symptom reveals its fonction by guessing the autoplastic activity and the alloplastic modification accomplished through transference. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]