Gaillard, Georges
Called to Invest, Urged to Abstinence: Intervention in Practice Analysis and the Institutional “Background”
- 2004.
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During practice analysis interventions, the institutional dynamic can exist as a sufficiently silent “background” only if the intervening party is concerned with the stakes at play and their configuration in the institutional psychic apparatus and its history. If the intervening party takes account of these in his psyche, it allows for a minimal connection and maximizes a (re)centralization of the elaborative task on the relation between professionals and “users.” The group and institutional configurations cause the intervening party to combine an inevitable investment with a possible abstinence orchestrating a similar trend among professionals. These motions bring about differentiation and mental work instead of narcissistic and deathly “enjoyment.”