2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Ethics of the good in the market of psychological services
Today's community of “helping professions” is very concerned with the issue of ethics. It sounds like the most humane, responsible, and experienced professionals are ringing alarm bells, urging the public to pay attention to a particularly dangerous situation. Sometimes, on the humanistic label of an aggravated discussion, one can find the exclamation: “colleagues quarreled over ethics again!”, And among other curious details, it turns out that such a fundamental question fully admits of not the most ethical forms of discussion.
However, it is worth listening to what, in fact, we are talking about, and it is not difficult to grasp that in the center of this notorious discussion there is something very consonant with what is called "the consumer's right to provide a service of proper quality." Ultimately, the question clearly echoes the guarantees of the result and the safety of the gain. In other words, the ethics of market relations here serves (or exploits?) The category of good. To illustrate the next trampling on humanistic and professional ideals, as a rule, evidence of "violation of borders" is cited, and such reckless steps of a specialist that obviously harm, destroy, frustrate his wards.
For the benefit of the client, the need for regulation and control is discussed. According to rumors, there is a special commission in the field of providing psychological services and state regulation of the issue is about to appear through the law and the licensing system. The problem is serious, the expert community is determined to stand guard over humanistic ideals that unexpectedly fit into the market turnover, since by paying, the client should receive the benefit due to him, while violation of ethical norms and lack of control in this area causes harm.
Strictly speaking, it is about the ethics of a typical, measured and sold good. Thus, in the conditions of commodity-money exchange, and the status of the subject itself is reduced to the level of the object - a person turns to the client of a specialist, who, in turn, is the object of assessment for compliance with the ethical code of the professional community.
In this state of affairs, the one who deviates from the norm becomes guilty, moreover, it turns out that the client turns out to be guilty a priori, since it is he who turns to the specialist with a problem that, in this logic, indicates a deviation from the norm. The specialist, on the other hand, is initially weighed down only by the burden of supervision, and by the ideal parameters of the good to which the client must be pulled up, but both of these heaps inevitably cause guilt. Guilt for crimes in the sphere of generally accepted ethics becomes a common burden for both the specialist and his ward.
Ethics of desire in the field of speech and language
Psychoanalysis undoubtedly attaches great importance to ethics. As well as there is no doubt that the specialists of the market of psychological services are not worried in vain, and in their own way are trying to find a solution to a really acute problem. But there is a fundamental difference in how the issue of ethics in psychoanalysis is raised and resolved.
First of all, psychoanalysis owes its very appearance to the ethical position that Freud took in relation to his patients. The first psychoanalyst immediately took a special place, from which he made a proposal, absolutely unthinkable for his time: "Please say whatever comes into your head." Freud made a risky coup, the significance of which is difficult to overestimate: instead of instilling, broadcasting, recommending from the position of the master, that is, from the position of a knowledgeable, exposed by the professional status of a specialist, he, as a psychoanalyst, took the most ethical position of the listener in relation to the speaking subject, far from evaluation. Since then, it has been the only way: the more there is a specialist in the chair, the less analysis on the couch, but rather even so: a small fraction of a specialist in the chair can cancel any possibility of analysis on the couch.
The psychoanalyst sacrifices the pleasure of showing his superiority over the analysand, demonstrating, for example, his status, experience and knowledge. That is, in observing the analytical position, he initially deprives himself of the advantages and supports built by the efforts of his conscious activity in the field of his training, professional development, execution of algorithms and norms. In other words, the analyst places himself, as far as possible, in a knowingly alarming situation in which there is a chance for a creative, analytical act of his statement, as a subject of the unconscious. The entire analytical procedure is focused on the creation of conditions and the perception of speech of the subject of the unconscious, and in the interests of just this kind of production and interpretation of the formations of the unconscious, the concept of ethics is involved in psychoanalysis.
The ethics of psychoanalysis is in no way focused on the category of the good, which implies a universal, typical meaning, and thereby formats the uniqueness and distinctive features of the subject. Psychoanalysis follows the ethics of the desire of the subject of the unconscious, it is a creative process. A psychoanalyst is one who has become infected with the desire to do analysis, that is, the desire to contribute to the production of unconscious acts, which is possible only under the conditions of freedom provided by the analysand's speech on the couch. For this cause, the analyst sacrifices the pleasure of being a knowledgeable specialist, a competent professional, the ideal of morality and piety. All these socially approved, good qualities are quite achievable in their fullness, it is enough to cast a cursory glance to immediately discover a tangible excess of such images. And, on the other hand, it is easy to feel the deficit of those who love their craft, who are able to rely on their desire, that is, on their lack, to take into account their inability to have complete control, complete success, complete peace.
The psychoanalytic undertaking is that the analyst's specific, risky, unique desire, which is in no way compatible with the rules and regulations, become the motivating cause for the analysis of the patient. The ethics of psychoanalysis consists in following one's desire, the analyst helps the analysand in finding, expressing and discovering his desire, which each time will only indicate a lack. Psychoanalysis tempts with desire, but does not enjoy the good. Psychoanalysis reveals for the subject the tragicomic dimension of his life, where rapprochement with the truth burns and worries, and at the same time, revives and awakens. The path of the analytic adventure is laid regardless of the trampled and fertilized mass of beneficiaries of the high road, where wine manages, which, from the point of view of psychoanalytic ethics, arises not as a result of trampling on decency, but as a result of betrayal of one's desire.
the article was published on the website znakperemen.ru in September 2020
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