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This Issue of the Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis brings forth a long-standing, topic, yet still prevalent and provocative: The Archaic. As you will come to realize, by reading the articles of the Journal many aspects and perspectives on Archaic are opened and elaborated under your eyes.
Not surprisingly, the search for generative transformation brings many people to psychoanalysis. Because it is one of the tasks of the psychoanalyst to listen to a patient in a very special manner, and to respond, with a sense of the right moment and through the use of the simplest words, the technique of psychoanalysis is primarily an aesthetics of care. Psychoanalysts create a poetics of interpretation (timing, spacing, wording, intoning) that delivers the content of the analyst's interpretation or silence to the patient in a manner that is symmetrical to the patient's ego capacities. The aesthetic of psychoanalysis strives to place the patient and the analyst in a deep subjective relation with one another, and this aesthetic evokes a state of being which re-enacts the infant's relation to the mother.