The maternal function of the analyst in the face of helplessness and helplessness in the face of the impact of the disruptive: considerations about the technique

The objective of this work is to carry out a review of the psychoanalytic literature through a bibliographic revision on the role of the Analyst in the face of isolation and helplessness. We will try to reflect on the possibility of a maternal function of the Analyst as a technical resource, as well as to identify the technical resources offered by Psychoanalysis to face the isolation and helplessness at present, the scope and limitations of this possible technical resource. For this reason, Google Scholar and the library of APA (Argentine Psychoanalytic Association) were used, including articles, books, master's theses and doctoral theses published between 1970 and 2020, in Spanish. The search criteria included the words maternal function of the analyst in the face of isolation and helplessness, and then reduced to the words that referred to maternal function, isolation and helplessness. The data indicated that much has been written about helplessness especially in the last 10 years; however, it is not so much, what has been found about maternal function as the most indicated technical resource according to the materials investigated. Even though, the early link of the mother-son dyad is being investigated, to be republished in the patient-therapist dyad within a current and contemporary psychoanalysis especially in the face of current helplessness. It is concluded that it is a topic to be reviewed in terms of ethics and the risks of excess that may limit the deployment of this therapeutic resource to include it within psychoanalytic praxis.