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Donnet thus emphasizes that, in the course of the treatment, the fundamental rule must progressively lose its “superego” character to take on the transitional value (in Winnicott's sense) of a play and appear at the end as "the rule of the psychoanalytic play". It remains the main organizer of the psychoanalytical situation by making its symbolic mediation, the necessary and sufficient agent of psychoanalytical action, but it also supposes a psychic work of verbal 'transference on language'. Continuing to place a greater emphasis on the ‘associative process ‘rather than Einfäll itself, André Green (2002) displayed particular interest in the metapsychology of a breakdown or fading of the associative process. This breakdown was chiefly observed in the analysis of borderline patients, within the context of his reflections on the thought of the negative, representing a sort of "attack on the links" (Bion). He initially underscores that these breakdowns in the associative process during the therapy session pertain to tertiary processes, which are meant to connect the primary and secondary processes. Green identifies the existence of a phenomenon referred to as 'associative phobia,' which serves to prevent the analysand from facing thoughts aimed not so much at avoiding castration anxieties or psychic conflicts but rather at addressing a central traumatic disorganization of the ego. This disorganization transcends the pleasure principle and leads to a form of impasse. Consequently, a protective "sanitary vacuum" is created. For these patients, everything seems to have happened as if different traumatic experiences, encountered at different periods of life, had interconnected to form a "central phobic nucleus". This nucleus is characterized by points of psychic confusion that exist both in time and with the object, especially with the subject's mother, taking on the value of incestuous equivalents in impasses. From then on, it is the whole organization of the ego that is damaged and threatened to be destroyed by the reversal of destructivity against a functioning without issue. Based on these particular clinical considerations, Green underlines that associativity is not linear process but rather reticular, unfolding in networks mixing different temporal and processual modalities. Very close to the two previous authors, René Roussillon suggests (2009a,b) that the difficulties in listening to the associative chains during the treatment must be linked to the fact that the forms of associativity examined by the aforementioned authors solely pertain to verbal associativity and narration. His detailed survey of Freud's texts devoted to these questions reveals that while Freud consistently associates associativity and narration with linguistic forms, it is not exclusively with verbal language that the fundamental rule concerns itself. Even though Freud initially enunciated the fundamental rule in 1907 in relation to the treatment of the ‘Rat Man’, a review of his subsequent clinical articles (Freud 1907, 1909, 1913a,b) demonstrates his keen interest in the language of affect and various modes of non-verbal communication along with their narrative significance. In 1913 Freud made it clear that for him language and human expressiveness could not be restricted to verbal language alone. Roussillon concludes that associativity is polymorphic and that listening to associativity in a session cannot avoid being polyphonic. Consequently, this conception of ‘associativity’ as such raises questions concerning its interplay with transference and the processes that organize it. To the process of displacement
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