Abstract:The essay relates the Freudian notion of transience with precious and fugitive elaborative moments which arise in the analysis sessions. It assumes the thesis that the analysis, by these valuable moments of encounter with the truth, is an exercise of the self on oneself, empowered by the kairós, proposed by Foucault in the Hermeneutics of the Subject. The author seeks in Greco-Roman antiquity the notion of disquiet of self, a constitutive ethical process of oneself that occurs in the relationship "between two"… Show more
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