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of creation of meaning, which determines in the patient's utterance and in the analyst's listening a double movement of ‘retroactive reverberation and announcing anticipation’. Donald Meltzer’ (1996) “The Psychoanalytic Process”, where "the psychoanalyst, with his attitude, is the one who allows or does not allow the patient to communicate freely (free association) the contents of his mind without having to resort to action” (Ibid, p. 10). For this author, framing is a "creation" of the analyst. Thomas Ogden’s (2009) contemporary North American Post-Bionian perspective, especially his "talking-as-dreaming", in place of traditional free associative process, to revitalize and reinvent the exchange between analyst and analysand. Dialogue of ‘Talking-as- dreaming’ primary process thinking allows patient and analyst to dream together when the patients had not yet been able to do so on their own. V. B. SPECIFIC LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENTS In the broad context of the overall concept construction and evolution, some contemporary Latin American authors (Laverde and Bayona 2012) point out that the updating of an element of the technique such as free association, which becomes a concept, has its origin in a clinical fact. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to clearly define it, to identify and delimit its use, and distinguish it from other similar conceptualizations. Further developments of the concept may result in enrichment that is saturated and does not admit any more changes on pain of being denaturalized (diluted); if diluted and de-differentiated, at a certain point it would be no longer possible to recognize it. It is therefore necessary to bring the development of a concept to a point of saturation, when nothing more should be added. What is appropriate in this moment is not to denaturalize the original concept, but to consider the possibility of creating a new concept. Emilio Rodrigué E, and Genevieve T. de Rodrigué (1966), do not deal directly with free association, but they deal with the concept of association and divide it into two categories: ‘the charade’ (riddle, divination, hieroglyphic), which is an association by similarity, which harbors a double meaning and on the other hand they consider ‘the symbolic association’, where two levels of psychic functioning are connected: level A Unconscious passes to level B Conscious. In free association there would be these two levels of association. This distinction made by the aforementioned authors coincides with Lacan's proposal of metaphor (by similarity) and metonymy (by continuity) within his postulation that the unconscious is structured as a language. Heinrich Racker (1966), in his book on studies on psychoanalytic technique, notes that the basic and fundamental technical principles of psychoanalytic technique, among them Free Association, may vary in their formulation and in their form of application and specific content of the patients’ responses. However, he affirms that the principles that Freud formulated for the purpose of analysis "to make the unconscious conscious" where the
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