Kaës, René <br/><br/>
The Issue of Links in Psychoanalysis 

 -  2005.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The author offers a general theoretical framework to set up the link as a relevant concept in the field of psychoanalysis. The issue of links is about the limits and borders which bring together and split the intra-psychical spaces and the inter-psychical and trans-psychical. It is also about the limits and borders of the psychoanalysis field. Differentiating the link of object relation, he suggests three descriptions of the link: the specific unconscious psychical reality built by the meeting of two or more subjects; the more or less stable movement of investments, representations and actions which combine two or more subjects for some psychic realisations; the logic which organises the “not one without the other”. He then analyses the main contact factors of the link: communal psychic spaces, shared and different, the driving investments, the fantasy structures, the representational systems, identification processes and common Ideals, the unconscious alliances.