Considerations on the flight of the birds

Abstract

This article starts with a hypothesis developed by Sigmund Freud in one of his last texts – Constructions in Analysis – and attempts to take it to its extreme. That is, the interpretation of the analyst always contains a trap of the kind: heads I win, tails you loose. If the patient finds the interpretation to be correct, it is a confirmation of its accuracy; if they find it to be incorrect, its proof of a resistance and so once again of its verity. Could it be that this paradox is not an objection to truth according to psychoanalysis, but rather the genesis of a radical reflection upon the operation of truth, not only in psychoanalysis but also beyond? We would be destined to, not so much understand truth, but rather to create truth. Furthermore, truth would not correspond with a transcendent object but resonate with an object that is always immanent to the field of interpretation.