I will consider a number of issues the notion of regression may give rise to, from a practitioner's perspective, building on the paper written by Brindusa Orăşanu. We refer to the notion of regression as to one that, in the highest degree, eludes a scientific approach, drawing psychoanalysis closer to poetry and art, as if speaking of a metaphor. More than for any other concept, it acquiring a rigorously met psychological statute, beyond the complexity of the undertaking, would appear to amputate, impoverish the meanings regression may suggest, and of which we avail ourselves.

In her paper, Brindusa Orăşanu shows that instating an analytical framework, which makes the expression of the subject (patient) possible - of his or her unconscious mind, specifically, together with everything entailed by expressing the unconscious mind as “psychic time”, atemporal