title: [Motivation and psychoanalysis. A cross-road].
abstract: The concept of drive in psychoanalysis corresponds to the question of motivation. This is related to the psychoanalytical methodology that is founded up on a specific process of communication, the listening and the interpretation of subjectivity and its unconscious origins. This specificity explains why psychoanalytic psychology deals with attachment and aversion drive (on one side sexuality, broadly speaking, including infantile sexuality, and on the other side aggressivity and destructivity). In the unconscious part of the mind, these drives are materialized in fantasies, action representations, that impose themselves unconsciously upon the conscious mind and give rise to intrapsychic conflicts and to personality disorders that are treated by psychoanalysis.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris. daniel.widlöcher@psl.ap-hop-paris.fr
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Widlöcher
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D004328:Drive; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009042:Motivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology