The Science of Transitions

The School of Aliveness & Adulthood's technique consists of teaching how to feel alive by working on Transitions:

From a transmitted Anti-Life Language
that obeys the Laws of the Other, which are Laws of the Unconscious and which deprive each one of us of our Self, leaving us dependent on lack, wait or dependence on the Other;

To a New Language for us to Learn
that obeys the Laws of Life, which give the feeling of a Conscious Reality of existing, and for which the Unit of Time is every day of our life.

This implies structuring our mind so that it can move away from the Parental Pre-Determination of the Unconscious' way of functioning--responsible for our neuroses--and working toward a Conscious Determination of Adult man or woman.

Working on Transference

What clearly differentiates this technique from classical psychoanalysis is the position given to the analytical work, from the very beginning: It is not about one who is supposed to know (the therapist) and one who does not know (the patient)--as it is in classical psychoanalysis--but about one who learns how to search (the therapist) and one who accepts to learn to search him/herself (the patient). This position is nothing like one of dominating-dominated anymore. It is one of equal to equal, each person being conscious of what he/she has to do.

Refusing the demand for love and creating a free space between the therapist and the patient, which becomes the object of the work for both of them, allows, with time, to create a transitional space as objective as possible, decontaminating the power struggle between the therapist and the patient.

Becoming autonomous and subject of our self requires getting out of the inter-subjectivity between the therapist and the patient, as it too often "closes" the analytical space and locks it up in a double-play of resistances between the therapist and the patient.

By defusing the transference's system of drives, the therapist and the patient enter a new way of functioning based on their working relationship, thereby leaving the parent-child way of functioning, which repeats itself and prevents access to Aliveness.