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= D.: wilde Psychoanalyse.–Es.: psicoanálisis silvestre.–Fr.: psychanalyse sauvage.–I.: psicoanalisi selvaggia.–P.: psicanálise selvagem or inculta.
Broadly understood, this expression refers to the procedure of amateur or inexperienced ‘analysts’ who attempt to interpret symptoms, dreams, utterances, actions, etc., on the basis of psycho-analytic notions which they have as often as not misunderstood. In a more technical sense, an interpretation is deemed ‘wild’ if a specific analytic situation is misapprehended in its current dynamics and its particularity–and especially if the repressed content is simply imparted to the patient with no heed paid to the * and to the *.
In the article which Freud devoted to ‘“Wild” ’ (1910k), he defined it first of all in terms of ignorance. The doctor whose intervention he criticises here has committed errors both scientific (regarding the nature of sexuality, repression, anxiety) and technical: ‘Attempts to “rush” [the patient] at first consultation, by brusquely telling him the secrets which have been discovered by the physician, are technically objectionable’ 1a. Thus anyone who ‘knows a few of the findings of ’ but has not undergone the required theoretical and technical training (α) can be said to be a practitioner of wild analysis.
Freud's criticism does not halt there, however–it extends to cases where the diagnosis made is the correct one, and the interpretation of the unconscious content exact: ‘It is a long superseded idea […] that the patient suffers from a sort of ignorance, and that if one removes this ignorance by giving him information (about the causal connection of his illness with his life, about his experiences in childhood, and so on) he is bound to recover. The pathological factor is not his ignorance in itself, but the root of this ignorance in his inner ;
it was they that first called this ignorance into being, and they still maintain it now. […] informing the patient of his unconscious reg