The utopia of the cure in psychoanalysis

Abstract

If, on the one hand, the utopias created by our imagination are moved by desire, although not necessarily an individual but a collective desire, on the other hand, their realization would imply the death of desire and, therefore, the accomplishment of the utopias would be a totalitarian realization. Faced with this problem, the article seeks to answer the following question: would the cure in psychoanalysis be a utopia? The possible answers to this question are explored in this paper in view of the complex relationship between utopia and desire.