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Summary
Method, object and objective of psychoanalysis: art,
science and technique José
Antonio Pavan
Armagedon:
violence in contemporary world
.Liana Albernaz de Melo Bastos
The
psychoanalytic method in Freud Marion
Minerbo
Psychoanalytic based psychotherapy
and the method
Bernard Miodownik
Psychoanalysis is
may be not intersubjective?
Luiz Carlos Mabild
To live is to know Maria
Cristina Borja Gondim
Transgressions and
deviations of the method Icleiber
Calife
Beyond the mirror
Adalberto A. Goulart
The psychoanalytical
method preservation in view of present difficulties
Luiz Marcírio K. Machado
Study on the analytical
scene and the enactments concept
Roosevelt M. Smeke Cassorla
Structures in scene
in the psychoanalytical process
Jaques Goldstajn
Psychoanalytical
process and psychic change
Luís Carlos Menezes
Repetition, new transcriptions
and new meanings on the process Deodato
Curvo de Azambuja
The potential space
as germinative field of the psychoanalytic process Anna-Maria
de Lemos Bittencourt
A
place for the surprise in the analytic process Ana
Rosa Chait Trachtenberg
Analytic
process in clinical practice and in analytic training Flávio
Rotta Corrêa
On the identity of
the psychoanalyst Fernando
José Barbosa Rocha
The psychoanalyst’s
identity
Victor Manoel Andrade
Melanie Klein’s
object relations developments Marly
Beaklini Guimarães Lemos
Maria Cristina Reis Amendoeira
Freud, Hartmann and Kohut
Paulo Roberto Sauberman
Freud, Hartmann (col.)
and Kohut
Vilma Guilherme Santos de Araújo
After Freud, Bion
helps us to works with Oedipus
Antonio Muniz de Rezende
Psychoanalysis
and Neurosciences: a matter of practical interest Carlos
Doin
A
practical psychoanalytic experience founded on neuro-psychoanalysis Yusaku
Soussum
Therapeutic consultation or experimental
treatment: alternatives of research with the psychoanalytic
method Theodor
Lowenkron
From psychoanalytical practice
to research in psychoanalysis Marisa
Pelella Mélega
Babies observation Bick’s
method Rute Stein
Maltz
The
Esther Bick observation method on mother-infant relation Theodolinda
Mestriner Stocche
The constitution
of femininity in a clinical case Teresa
Rocha Leite Haudenschild
Psychoanalysis and
psychopatology: past or future Fernando
Linei Kunzler
The psychosomatic
patient Plinio
Montagna
Anorexia nervosa and the psychoanalysis: tendencies
and one reading Milton
Della Nina
Psychoanalysis: Profession or specialization? Alfredo
Menotti Colucci
Psychoanalysis
in face of violence José
Otavio Fagundes
Psychoanalysis, individual
violence and social violence. Aurea
Maria Lowenkron
Psychoanalysis and
art
Claudio Castelo Filho
The second innocence:
arts and psychoanalysis Ignacio
Gerber
Literature and psychoanalysis:
mutual illumination Juarez
Guedes Cruz
Psychoanalysis and theatre Alan
Victor Meyer
Psychoanalysis and Mass Media Claudio
Rossi
The
Raft of the Medusa and the Shipwreckeds of Identity Luiz
Fernando Gallego
"Psychoanalysis
and Institutional Psychology” Regina
Murat
A psychoanalist “pé
descalço” in the community Joaquim
Couto Rosa
So
many families! Marci
Dória Passos
Social Clinics in the
Institutes of psychoanalysis
Maria de Fátima B. Calife Batista
Violence
and psychic trauma as a risk situation in psychoanalysis
Edgar Chagas Diefenthaeler
Literature
and psychoanalysis Marialzira
Perestrello
The vicissitudes
of the Psychoanalysis in aged
Maria Cristina Reis Amendoeira
Method, object and objective of psychoanalysis:
art, science and technique José
Antonio Pavan
Taking as reference the philosophical conceptions
of Charles S. Peirce, some considerations are made
on the scientific statute of Psychoanalysis as clinical
practice. It is considered how the analytical method,
through an ethical oriented conduct is fitted to reach
its object, according to the objectives aimed by the
analysis of the human psyche, and so attaining its
end in an esthetic way. It is considered that in the
analytical process art and science converge, the last
being considered either in its theoretical or practical
characters.
Key words
Psychoanalysis • method • object •
objective.
Armagedon: violence in contemporary world
Liana Albernaz de Melo Bastos
Considering that violence has always
existed, the author tries to establish its characteristics
in the actual world and how psychoanalysis can help
to understand it. Exemplifying the clinics of the
contemporaries subjects using the film “ Two
lost gays in a dirty night” and supported by
Baudrillard’s analysis of globalization and
the appearing of the USA as na unique potency after
the 11th September, the author privileges the Freudians
concepts of death instinct and of stranger (Unheimlich)
to discuss the violence of the globalized narcissistic
power.
Key words
Violence • globalization • narcissistic
power.
The psychoanalytic method in Freud
Marion Minerbo
From Freud’s clinical fragment
published in Psychoneurosis of Defense (1894), I try
to make explicit the invariant movements of the psychoanalytic
method. My aim is to try to answer the questions:
How did Freud discover what he discovered? What is
the method underlying his clinical work that produced
the theory we know? What was the path he followed
and that we continue to follow every day?
Key Words
Psychoanalytic method • interpretation.
Psychoanalytic based psychotherapy
and the method
Bernard Miodownik
For approximately 50 years the relationship
between Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy
has been an ever present theme in clinical practice.
Starting with numerous changes in the cultural environment
and in the theoretical and technical psychoanalytic
body, this subject has been becoming a more controversial
matter. As in Wallerstein’s word (1995) we have
left an “era of consensus” in which both
categories presented clearly defined methods and parameters
for periods of “fragmentation of consensus”
and even to a “world without consensus”.
As psychoanalysts more frequently started to practice
analytic psychotherapy, a gradual approximation between
the methods occurred. This and other factors that
contributed to an approximation between the two therapies
are recounted and related to the changes in theory
and technique since Ferenczi. Arguments and clinical
examples are presented that aim to demonstrate the
idea that in certain conditions and clinical situations
an analytic process can be developed, even though
the classical analytic method is not being totally
applied. An approximation between Psychoanalysis and
analytic psychotherapy has taken to a modified analytic
model that can be included, using once again a term
of Wallerstein (1995), among the many existing psychoanalysis
in the contemporary psychoanalytic movement.
Key words
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy •
modified psychoanalytic method • intersubjectivity
• severe disorders.
Psychoanalysis is may be not intersubjective?
Luiz Carlos Mabild
This paper focuses on some questions
concerning intersubjectivity as new paradigm for the
psychoanalytical method. At the same time it also
tries to bring some into the intense discussion that
has been going on among subjectivist psychoanalysts,
objectivist psychoanalysts and interactivist psychoanalysts,
as this discussion has not been very enlightening.
In order to achieve these goals, the paper presents
a historical, conceptual and developmental explanation
of the intersubjective concept, as well as a discussion
concerning its technical usefulness based on clinical
material published by Jacobs, Ogden and Renik.
Towards the end, the author presents his own opinion
concerning the possibility of Psychoanalysis becoming
an interactive theory because of its use of the intersubjective
point of view.
Key words
Psychoanalytical method • technique theory •
intersubjectivity.
To live is to know
Maria Cristina Borja Gondim
The author considers life as a discovery
process, considering its search as the motivation
that moves the analysand forward. Therefore, she does
not only understand the construction of knowledge
as a formulation of the substantive theory, but, also
as a procedural theory: the method. This problem is
inserted in a broader questioning that exceeds the
individual and the psychoanalytic theory, by observing
that it reaches all areas of knowledge, as a questioning
of the scientific paradigm of modern science, effective
since the XVIII century. Through the use of Edgar
Morin’s thought in this area, as a privileged
interlocutor, she examines the necessity of a change
in determinant principles on the analyst’s thought
, in order to approach it of complex thought. Subsequently
she deals with the consequences of the different paradigmatic
determinations of the psychoanalytic clinical process.
Finally, she adopts a cautious position in respect
to the meaning expressed in the theme “Transgressions
and deviations of the method”.
Key words
Psychoanalytic theory • Transgressions and deviations
of the method.
Transgressions and deviations
of the method
Icleiber Calife
The author is used of the Dream of
Irma’s Injection for to explain that is the
Psychoanalytic Method. He speaks about the Failed
Operations, of Psychopathology of the daily life,
of the Jokes and your Relationships with the Unconscious,
as the only way to explain that human acts prove the
existence of a dynamic process that promotes the elaboration
of psychic apparel that operates independently of
the will. He speaks about Freud’s course to
elaborate the Method, with your deviations and contradictions,
until arriving to your collaborators’ transgressions
Jung, Adler, and Otto Rank, which tried to reformulate
the Method and the Analytic Technique. It is only
used of Freud’s Work to affirm that the protests
or attempts of modification of the Method implicate
in the creation of new psychologies, non psychoanalytic.
It compares the current protests with the same of
Freud’s time, in the attempt of changes of the
Method, without the due scientific backup that justifies
it.
Key vords
Transgressions • deviations • method.
Beyond the mirror
Adalberto A. Goulart
The Author develops a study about
the nowadays comprehension of the countertransference
concept, crossedes projective identifications and
counteridentifications, pre-verbals intuitives communications
and the latent content of the verbals communications.
He discusses the important presence of the analyst
total personality in the analytic session, that included
the real person, as much as the patient, interchanging
and interfering on process, although the technic neutrality
search.
The intersubjective concept is enhanced like a double
phantasy in the analytic field, constructed by subjectivities
meeting of both components, that should be ransom
later, in their differences, enriched by the intersubjective
meeting.
He emphasize the necessity of some dose of courage
and daring that the analyst needs to have to use of
the raw material that emerge in field intersubjective,
always sustained by the solid psychoanalytic formation,
by the studies and speciality by the satisfactory
personal analysis. He illustrates the paper with a
clinic session in that intersubjective phenomenon
experience emerge in the analytic situation. The turbulences
that this studies cause in the psychoanalytic method
and process are discusses.
The author concludes the work, with Ehrenberg (1992),
when he says that the neutrality myth never replace
the analyst integrity.
Key words
Psychoanalysis • method and process •
external object.
The psychoanalytical method preservation
in view of present difficulties
Luiz Marcírio K. Machado
This paper seeks a better distinction
between the psychoanalytical method in its essence
and the necessary techniques as to its theoretical-clinical
application. It also discusses the definition of the
object of psychoanalysis as a science which researches
the unconscious and as a kind of psychotherapy based
on the phenomenon of transference of such unconscious
aspects towards the analyst himself.
In general terms it tries to demonstrate that some
techniques are central to the applicability of the
psychoanalytical interpretation method. They are the
ones which intend to facilitate the aprehension of
the transferential phenomenon in its “status
nascendi” with the least induction possible
on the analyst’s part.
Other techniques have been receiving new approaches,
mainly because of the more intersubjective current
view of the analytical process, taking into account
the dialectics of “countertransference-transference”
in the analytical field.
After a quick review of some of Freud’s technical
texts - and comparing with other authors - we have
set out to discuss if the question of session frequency
and the use of the couch must be considered as such
a central matter as we suggest abstinence rules, (we
have added continence), fluctuating attention and
free association. In other words, if the objective
of any analytical process is visualizing the unconscious
processes and their updating in the transference,
then the psychoanalytical method cannot overlook it,
since it constitutes its own essence, even if some
some originary, ancient rules – be it for the
sake of broader analysibility criteria, or for modern
day life difficulties – are undergoing inevitable
transformations.
Key words
Method • techniques • transference •
countertransference • intersubjective.
Study on the analytical scene and the
enactments concept
Roosevelt M. Smeke Cassorla
The author seeks a model that will
facilitate the comprehension of what occurs between
the members of the analytical pair. Therefore, characteristics
of the narrative arts such as movies, literature,
theater are discussed. It is proposed that the theater
is the most appropriated model. In this “theater”
the analyst should be, at the same time, actor, director,
co-author, critic, and illuminator. The analyst’s
critical capacity as an observational instrument is
emphasized. The “enactment” phenomenon
is then presented as a different concept from “acting-out”.
It’s considered that the concept of “enactment”
is controversial but useful, and it is explained from
an inter subjective view. The concept of “enactment”
is referred to the theater model. Finally a classification
on normal and pathological enactments is presented.
Pathological enactments can be acute and chronic.
Key words
Psychoanalytic technique • intersubjectivity
• acting out • enactment.
Structures in scene in the psychoanalytical
process
Jaques Goldstajn
The author presents clinical material
that aloud our thoughts development about the psychoanalytical
process, based on contemporary clinic where we’ve
noticed a bigger demand from chemical addicts, psychosomatics
and borderlines patients. With this material, he lead
us through a way that claim for changes in the traditional
psychoanalytical setting, as previously happened with
Children analysis. For justify it, shows in here the
Scenic Structures and also the Psychoanalytical Process
in the sense of developing methodological and technical
matters that may contribute to form new ideas about
the setting elements.
Stands out about external setting matters, which need
to take place in the analytical process and which
may be puzzled with transferences. The author also
propose about formal matters that can be modified,
as the couch use, the schedule and the fee arrangements
as well as the capability to introduce interpretations,
favoring the patients comprehension among the work
process.
Key words
Setting • psychoanalytical theory technique
• borderline patients.
Psychoanalytical process and psychic change
Luís Carlos Menezes
I approached the proposed theme about
the psychoanalytical process putting emphasis on language
and considering that it is in its interior that analysis
essentially takes place. A clinical example was presented
in order to convey how I understand from this point
of view the interventions and changes in this process.
The way the analyst makes himself present cannot be
dissociated from the way he listens to his patient.
As we cannot omit what we know about the primary paranoid
tendency of the ego, what matters is the analyst,
beyond his empirical “person”, may implant
through his listening a form of presence that may
guarantee a condition of absence in the session; this
is the condition for language to become the place
of transference, that is, of the foreigner.
Key words
Psychoanalytical process • psychic change •
transference • counter-transference •
language in analysis.
Repetition, new transcriptions and new
meanings on the process
Deodato Curvo de Azambuja
The work seeks to monitor certain
insights that have been extended as from September
11, 2001. The author emphasizes certain models, based
on his insights, of absurd realities, which are disclosed
based on surprising, and sometimes unprecedented,
happenings. They are dreams, hallucinatory states,
schizo-paranoid, and the “spectacle of growth
and reproduction” through the juxtaposition
of the feminine and masculine, the collapse of the
Twin Towers of the WTC All these make room through
language and communication for new transcriptions
and new meanings and for the uncertainties of reality,
alongside absolutisms that seek eternal repetition.
Key words
Insight • repetition • new transcriptions
• new meanings • language, freedom •
absolutism • relativism • success •
reality • absurd.
The potential space as
germinative field of the psychoanalytic process
Anna-Maria de Lemos Bittencourt
The paradoxical condition of the aesthetic
experience, as described by Proust in his work “A
la Recherche du Temps Perdu”, draws it closer
to other creative phenomena studied by psychoanalysis,
which are equally paradoxal and, for that very reason,
thought provoking. They both require theoretical examination
and, although stemming from different fields of knowledge,
they found a common denominator in the concept of
potential space. The author talks about the germinative
activity of this space, taking as a starting point
the ideas of bissexuality according Proust, Winnicott
and Freud and points to the importance of considering
the psychoanalytical experience as such kind of space.
El espacio potencial como campo germinativo del proceso
psicoanálitico
Key words
Aesthetic experience • potential space •
creativity • bisexuality.
A place for the surprise
in the analytic process
Ana Rosa Chait Trachtenberg
The author intends, in this paper,
to make some relations about the surprise in the analytic
process as an enabling element of its movement. The
capability of the analyst of letting himself penetrate
by the novelty of the surprise, and specially come
out of the paralysis that it initially arouses, makes
him able to progress into curiosity. It takes place
inside the well-succeeded countertransference (“within
the law group “).We have three examples: alienating
identifications and the listening of the listening;
figurability and the regredient listening; the silent
body and the body listening. The countertransference
in the “out of law group “appears with
the predominance of the analyst narcissism. Thus,
it sets up with a cut to the surprise, the new and
the progress of the analytic situation.
Key words
Countertransference • surprise • alienating
identification • figurability • analytic
process.
Analytic process in clinical practice
and in analytic training
Flávio Rotta Corrêa
Based on the clinical experience and
on the didatic function exercise in the Psychoanalysis
Institute of the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytical Society
the author develops considerations on the subject
proposed by the theme “Is these a natural course
in the evolutive of analytic process?” during
XIX Brazilians Congress a Psychoanalysis, Recife,
Brasil.
Keywords
Psychoanalysis • process • clinical practice
• analytic training.
On the identity of the
psychoanalyst
Fernando José Barbosa Rocha
The author discusses the statute,
the object and the objectives of psychoanalysis, placing
the importance of the analytic setting and the transference
as basic elements of the analytic work. He defends
the idea that instauration of the analytic process
and its affectiveness are directly associated to the
analyst´s possibilities of staying in the “place
of the analyst”. Maintained in his “place”,
the analyst would not impede that psychoanalysis’
main goal to be accomplished, in order to lead to
psychic energy free movement, in which significances
and resignificances might occur. He presents and discusses
the meaning of the training of the analyst, pointing
out the need for personal analysis, theoretical studies
and supervision . At this time, the author is categorical
in detaching the analyst´s personal analysis
as a fundamental element in the formation of one’s
identity and also in the transmission of psychoanalysis.
As an aim to corroborate with refletions and discussions
on the theme, some basic elements of the psychoanalytic
training are presented, through the Paris Psychoanalytic
Society training model. Finally, the author investigates
on which should be the rearrangements that Psychoanalysis
should operate so that the analysis won`t retreat
before the “new pathologies of the soul”.
Key words
Statute • object and the objective of the psychoanalysis
• identitiy of the psychoanalyst • personal
analysis • supervision • theorectical
study • the place of the analyst.
The psychoanalyst’s
identity
Victor Manoel Andrade
The departure from its natural development
track is an important factor in the universal crisis
experienced by psychoanalysis nowadays. The trajectory
of this development was laid down by Freud, when he
pointed to ego comprehension as our “major task”.
The narcissistic cases that we face daily are usually
understood on a different way from that suggested
by Freud, when he conceived the ego as a synthesis-instance.
In these cases many theories are used, which frequently
are not coherent one with another. Sometimes, they
are conflictive with the Freudian identity of psychoanalysis,
and these breaks, in a certain way, our science’s
historical continuity. The repercussion of these facts
on psychoanalyst’s identity is unavoidable.
If the present-day contributions to the treatment
of narcissism were understood in the light of Freud’s
ego psychology, we would see that the psychoanalyst’s
identity is a fundamental part of the psychoanalytic
process, since the healing of the basic fault in the
patient’s ego depends on the integrity of the
analyst’s ego. In these cases, the analyst’s
attitude and disposition is as decisive as his interpretations.
In Analysis Terminable and Interminable, where ego
alterations were discussed, Freud showed that the
integrity of the analyst’s character is a crucial
factor in making psychoanalysis a possible profession.
Key words
Enlarged ego • major psychoanalysis •
unconscious ego • empathic identificaton.
Melanie Klein’s object relations
developments
Marly Beaklini Guimarães Lemos
Maria Cristina Reis Amendoeira
The theory of the object relations
leads us to the understanding of human emotional development
and its pathologies. The concept of projective identification,
sufficiently developed and used in the present time,
allows the analyst to work inserted in a rich relational
field of transference and counter transference emotions.
Moreover it approaches the understanding of the most
complex existing mental contents in contemporaneous
psychopathology. We add to the formation of thought
and symbolism, contributions of Bion and Segal as
well as the new developments of the oedipal triangulation
according to Britton. The developed theoretical conceptions
in this work are illustrated by clinical vignettes.
Key Words
Object relations theory • object relations developments
• transference • countertransference •
narcisism.
Freud, Hartmann and Kohut
Paulo Roberto Sauberman
This is a presentation for a panel
in the next Psychoanalytic Congress focusing the relations
among Freud, Hartmann and Kohut. The paper focuses
a series of Seminars given by Kohut between 1972 and
1974 about Psychoanalysis to advanced students at
Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and explore the
new ideas by Kohut in the period of time between the
publication os his two books: the Analysis of the
Self and the Restoration of the Self
Key words
Heinz Kohut • psychoanalytic self psychology.
Freud, Hartmann (col.) and Kohut
Vilma Guilherme Santos de Araújo
Based on the viewpoint that Psychoanalysis
has progressed, I have tried to present Kohut’s
and Hartmann’s innovations through Freud’s
theories.
Considering psychism construction, made through whether
through the drives theory or the object relations
theory, I articulated Freud’s, Hartmann’s
and Kohut’s theorethical viewpoints.
The foundations of the three theories were presented
taking their main aspects into account.
Concerning the Freudian theory I focused the concepts
that were
modified by Hartmann and Kohut. These concepts were
the pillars of their theories.
The fundamental differences among Hartmann’s
Psychology of Ego and Kohut’s Psychology of
Self were pointed.
Key words
Instinct drive theory • object relations theory
• exempt conflict of ego • self object.
After Freud, Bion helps us to works with Oedipus
Antonio Muniz de Rezende
In this work, my intention was to
explain how Bion helps us to reread the myth of Oedipus,
to provide us not only better clinic skills, but also
a braver epistemological position.
Key words
Personality • character • relationships
• structure • elements • function
• sexuality • truth psychoanalysis of
adults • development • catastrophic change
• reorganization.
Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences: a matter
of practical interest
Carlos Doin
Having discussed several questions
concerning the interface psychoanalysis-neurosciences
in other opportunities, including the two latest Brazilian
congresses of psychoanalysis, the author retakes the
matter from a essentially clinical stand, trying to
answer some freqüent questions such as: “What
is the practical usefulness of these studies? Can’t
I work without them?”. Searching for better
answers the author examines several aspects of the
problem and mentions many contributions on neurosciences
which are relevant to psychoanalysis, emphasising
two: the great quantity of empirical data and concepts
that are able to strengthen several psychoanalytic
theories and notions, as well as to weaken other ones;
a deeper understanding of some severe pathological
conditions that can favor the clinical approach and
improve the transferential-countertransferential management
of them.
A practical psychoanalytic experience
founded on neuro-psychoanalysis
Yusaku Soussum
A reduced version of this paper was
presented in the XLII IPA Congress, in Nice (2001),
in the panel: “Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences”.
The author now presents the full article, with neuro-psychoanlytic
fundamentations, that are so different from the psychoanalytic
ones. He presents a work approach in analytical situations,
that was developed in the begining under Bion’s
influence, looking for the apprehension of emotional
experience in the “here and now” situation.
The author noticed that one of the difficulties of
analysands to become aware of the emotional states
was the lack of the development of attention and perception
functions. The development of attention, self-perception,
perception of the other and of the situation could
permit the analysands to have the elaboration of questions
that maintained their lives in traps. Through an adequate
emotional experience they could reach maturation and
changes in the manner of driving their lives.
Key words
Applied psychoanalysis • neuro-psychoanalysis
• basic registers of memory • attention
• perception • volition.
Therapeutic consultation
or experimental treatment: alternatives of research
with the psychoanalytic method
Theodor Lowenkron
In this paper, therapeutic consultation
and experimental treatment are presented as research
alternatives with the psychoanalytic method. Winnicott’s
idea on therapeutic consultation is carried from child
clinic to adult clinic, by substituting the encounter
registration of the exchange of drawings between analyst
and patient through the so called Squiggle Game by
video recordings of encounters with adult patients.
Freud’s experimental proof treatment is redeemed
through the preliminary interviews proposal. The author
intends to test the possibility of enlargement of
Freud’s original purpose with experimental treatment
beyond diagnosis, including the Winnicott conception
of psychoanalytic consultation to experimental treatment.
Key Words
Psychoanalytic research • psychoanalytic method
• psychoanalytic of therapeutic consultation
• experimental treatment.
From psychoanalytical
practice to research in psychoanalysis
Marisa Pelella Mélega
The author does some considerations
about psychoanalytical researches.
She follows presenting a research methodology used
for a project which studies the correspondence between
Maternal Reverie and the Development of Symbolic Capacity
in Infants from 0 to 18 months.
The investigated sample was constituted by 212 visit
reports, following the method of Mother-Infant Observation
devised by Esther Bick. Nineteen dyads observed on
a weekly basis along two years were studied. The reports
were brought by the Observers to group supervision
with the main researcher, following the current procedure
used for the training in “Infant Observation”.
For the research, sequences within the observation
reports which could be characterized as Frustration
Episodes were selected and studied according to the
infant’s reaction to frustration, and to the
beginning, attempts of solution and outcome of the
Episodes. The theoretical background was Bion’s
theory on thinking (1962). To study the Episodes,
the researchers created categories to assess both
the Child’s Behaviour and the Maternal Reverie
in each Frustration Episode. There categories are
detailed in the Research Manual.
As an exploratory piece of research and having, the
psychoanalytical observation field as a background,
this paper explain through an example how the observational
material was transferred to the protocol and how the
data was analyzed qualitatively, although not directly
presented.
In this paper, a quantitative investigation (including
the gathering of data through tables) has also been
undertaken.
The qualitative study and the discussion on the quantitative
data are been accomplished.
Key words
Psychoanalytical research • psychoanalytical
method • infant observation on Esther Bick method
• maternal reverie • symbolic capacity
• frustration episode.
Babies observation Bick’s
method
Rute Stein Maltz
In this paper, the author intends
to establish an approximation between the Observation
of Babies and the Work of Art.
As baby observers, we, in a similar way as an artist
with “the look”, capture and transmit
what we experience in the face of the greatest masterpiece
of human nature: the mother- infant relation. This
relation, for being impacting, unique and primitive,
reveals itself to the observer as an important source
of creativity.
The author illustrates the proposed theme with material
from the observation of babies, literary texts and
paintings.
Later on she points out the importance of observation
for one’s comprehension.:
1. The primitive emotional development originating
from the initial relation mother-baby.
2. To reflect about the performance of our therapeutic
function from what we observe in ourselves, through
the observation and latter discussion in the group
of observers.
3. To make references to the therapeutic aspects of
observation.
Nevertheless, the author makes it a point in emphasizing
the significant importance that the living experience
of the Bick Method brings as a contribution to the
formation of the psychoanalyst in the clinical work
with patients.
Key words
Bick method • baby observattion • work
of art.
The Esther Bick observation
method on mother-infant relation
Theodolinda Mestriner Stocche
The observation method on mother-infant
relation, proposed by Bick four decades ago allowed
for a formidable expansion of knowledge not only in
Psychoanalysis, as well as in different fields of
science. After the context of the method, we undertake
reflections setting out from our observation experiences
by focusing questions such as: reasons for pregnant
women to accept the presence of an observer in the
privacy of their homes and the effect of precocious
separation in the mothers and their babies. We get
to the conclusion that mothers are receptive to the
entrance of an observer in the privacy of their homes
since towards the end of pregnancy, they feel emotionally
fragile, in need for protection. Thus, they seek necessary
emotional support in the observer figure in this delicate
period of their lives. On the other hand, child separation
at the age of three / four months triggers diverse
psychosomatic reactions in the baby. In mothers, manifestations
of anxiety and depression were observed, as well as
compensatory mechanisms. Data systemized in our experience
demonstrate that the mother-infant bond is primordial
and fondant of human psychism.
The baby is a product of active exchanges between
its potential and the physical, social and emotional
environment in which development is taking place.
Key words
Observação da relação
mãe-bebê • vínculo •
separação.
The constitution of femininity in a clinical
case
Teresa Rocha Leite Haudenschild
The author proposes that studies on
the femininity be carried out in its evolution through
the course of a woman’s life, rather than under
the weight of classical theories based on the “masculine”
and on female pathology.
She presents a clinical case whereby the reader can
observe the constitution of femininity and concludes
by inviting others to write on cases of the healthy
evolution of women.
Key words
The constitution of femininity • psychic self-continence
• the internalized father • pride to be
a woman.
Psychoanalysis and psychopatology: past
or future
Fernando Linei Kunzler
The author does a brief historic search
about the basic concepts of Freud, Klein, Winnicott,
Bion, Lacan and the contemporary André Green's
psychoanalysis. Defends the idea that the psychoanalysts
need to be based in the theoretical and technical's
foundations, deepen and amplify continuously the study
and improve the technic in order that psychoanalysis
be always an alive science and strong and could be
defined not as psychoanalysis past or future, but,
as psychoanalysis past, present and future.
Key words
Psychoanalysis • past • present •
future/psychopatology • past • present
• future.
The psychosomatic patient
Plinio Montagna
Through the discussion of psychosomatic
phenomena and its comprehensios the author comments
some useful elements in its psychoanalytical management.
Key words
Psychosomatic patient.• alexithymia •
psychosomatics.
Anorexia nervosa and the psychoanalysis: tendencies
and one reading
Milton Della Nina
The author proposes himself to do
a commented reading of the psychoanalytic literature
about anorexia nervosa. His goal is to offer an introductory
facilitation to the readers for the complex conceptual
plot produced by those psychoanalytic researches.
He presumes a reader that can be identified with him:
a psychoanalyst interested in the theme, but mainly
searching in these emergent concepts an association
with related clinical problems. At first, he shows
the steps from the nosological definition of anorexia
nervosa through the time. Then, he detaches from the
conceptual mass, with resumed presentation of selected
psychoanalytic papers, some tendencies of the psychodynamic
vision of the syndrome. He complements the tendencies´
presentation with a few isolated examples of Brazilian
authors, without considering it as a bibliographical
review. Finally, revisiting his own pathway reading
he outlines some possible research routes of conceptual
connections with relevance to the daily clinical work.
He points out mainly to the concept of mental space,
its relation with the development of symbolization
and transitional space in the cultural inclusion,
the primitive phobic defenses in front of the anxiety
neurosis, and the importance of the corporal ego construction
in the clinical phenomena of borderline and psychosomatic
patients.
Key words
Anorexia nervosa • bulimia • mental space
• transitional space • corporal ego body
image • phobia • borderline • psycho
soma • anxiety neurosis • personality
disturb.
Psychoanalysis: Profession or specialization?
Alfredo Menotti Colucci
The author study the introdution of
a occupation in the culture. Highlight Psychoanalisys
as one plural activity and the psychoanalist with
the challenge to represent The question of the title
incentive reflections and suggest that a continuous
evolution based on the standart ethics will provide
protection and posterity to the Psychoanalisys.
Key Words
Profession • regulation • regulate •
ethics.
Psychoanalysis in face of violence
José Otavio Fagundes
The author defines violence as a
traumatic situation, as an expression of destructiveness
against the other or himself, with a psychic and social
representation. It is distinguished from biological
instinct and derived from the abuse of power between
people, when conflicts are not solved through dialogue.
He refers that, although the psychoanalyst can’t
solve the violence problem, he could create a space
for reflection to think about it and its relatedness
with other disciplines.
A literature revision describes its psychodynamic
and its social relations. He presents some authors’
ideas in dealing with violence, besides the project
Abrace Seu Bairro of juvenile violence prevention,
in which the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of S.Paulo
participates among other institutions.
Key words
Psychoanalysis • violence • destructivity
• trauma • power • narcissism •
social • compassion • conflict •
paradox.
Psychoanalysis, individual violence and social violence.
Aurea Maria Lowenkron
This paper deals with the issue of
violence on theoretic and clinical approaches, considered
in their social relationships. Many aspects of violence
that were discussed by Freud are highlighted, such
as trauma concept, discomforts in civilization, death
instinct and some of his ideas about war. Based on
concepts proposed by Piera Aulagnier, this paper also
discusses the organizational or pathogenic aspects
related to necessary violence and excessive violence
in family and social environment. Finally, a few resumes
of clinical and literary stories are presented in
order to illustrate the impossibility of the construction
or maintenance of subjectivity under brutal life conditions
that obstruct the thinking and the hope. On the absence
of principles appropriate to human conditions, there
is no subject, no place for psychoanalysis or even
for life. That is why violence in the world we live
nowadays concern us as subjects, citizens and psychoanalysts.
Key words
Psychoanalysis and violence • trauma •
subject and environment • necessary violence
• excessive violence • social violence.
Psychoanalysis and art Claudio
Castelo Filho
The author considers that both art
and science have common origins that can be found
in explosions of creativity as proposed by A. I. Miller
and in alpha function and selected fact as proposed
by Bion. Both try to find aesthetic representations
of worlds beyond appearances. Works of art are the
equivalents of myths, dreams and mathematical equations.
All these expressions are related to the apprehension
of new levels of “common sense” and its
expansion. A masterpiece as well as a great scientific
theory represent a deep insight which is conveyed
through efficient language (language of achievement)
that allow the members of a community to share the
grasped meanings and evolve them. According to Bion,
the analyst should be able to paint a picture of what
is going on in his office when he is at work and see
the colors that would fit it. The author resorts to
a paper by Hannah Arendt that is about the nature
of works of art and the uses that can be made of them.
This philosopher warns us about the great danger that
nowadays art risks being transformed into objects
of mass consume that are quickly digested and eliminated
through a catastrophic process. The same danger menaces
Psychoanalysis due to the efforts that are being made
to dilute it and to turn it into something banal like
the kitsch copy of itself so it would become popular
and easy to consume.
Key words
Comunication • emotional experience •
language of achievment • art • kitsh.
The second innocence: arts and psychoanalysis
Ignacio Gerber
In this essay the author proposes
that artistic attention and psychoanalytic attention
emanate from a suspension of the conscious ego and
giving oneself up to the emotional logic of the Unconscious.
He relates floating attention and the “ no memory
no desire” with the quest for a second innocence.
Key words
Unconscious • emotion • floating attention
• sublimation.
Literature and psychoanalysis: mutual
illumination
Juarez Guedes Cruz
The present paper is based on a premise:
the familiarity between literature and psychoanalysis
– both having origins in our dream unconscious
lives and basically dealing with words – allows
for the establishment of a ‘mutual illumination’
(Martins, 2002). Such process dilutes illusions of
supremacy of one towards the other and allows that
both approaches escape from isolation that would be
expressed by a position where psychoanalysts would
be charged to ‘interpret’ the literary
work under the protest of writers, who wanted to remain
intangible, living in a limb of creators, offering
civilization the magical fruits of intuitive perceptions.
Based on this viewpoint some of the inspirational
influences that literature had on psychoanalysis since
its origins are reviewed. Then, two psychoanalytical
approaches are exposed: the examination of the character
construction in literature and a view on the importance
of the mental conflict in the literary creation.
Key words
Applied psychoanalysis • literature.
Psychoanalysis and theatre
Alan Victor Meyer
In this paper the author aims to establish
a relation of mutual implication between psychoanalysis
and theatre, avoiding an applicative use of the former.
Some references to Freud’s thoughts on Sophocles’
Greek tragedy “Oedipus King” are considered
jointly with some of his ideas on creativity and phantasy.
Key words
Psychoanalysis • theatre • creativity
• interpretation • phantasy • Oedipus.
Psychoanalysis and Mass
Media
Claudio Rossi
After methodological considerations
on the application of Psychoanalysis in social and
cultural objects, the author deals with the seduction
and magic of the media and its conscious and unconscious
reasons. Based upon a literature survey it is shown
that the media is controlled by a complex net of interests
and social phenomena and that it is one of the most
characteristic products of the globalized capitalism.
The author considers that it is not useful to demonize
the media and concludes that psychoanalysis practice
can protect people against the bad effects and against
the capitalist ideology that supports and dominates
the media.
Key words
Media • mass media • mass • mass
psychology • capitalism • psychoanalysis
and media • alienation • magic of the
media • seduction of the media.
The Raft of the Medusa and the Shipwreckeds
of Identity
Luiz Fernando Gallego
The authors seek to clarify the question
of Identity in relationship to the Being, the Self
and external image, starting with the contributions
of Grinberg, with emphasis on the ideas of Kohut,
Mollon and Winnicott. These thinkers enable the pathway
through several concepts and theorizations, addressing
the theme in its vast contemporary complexity. To
the end, one notices that this plurality revitalizes
the psychoanalytic field that holds and needs such
an expansion in its theoretical-clinical composition.
Key words
Identity • self • selfobjet • body
image • being • chaos • existence.
"Psychoanalysis and Institutional
Psychology”
Regina Murat
This text was elaborated for the discussion
group named “Psychoanalysis and Institutional
Psychology”, in the axis “Dialogue with
the community”, at the XIX Brazilian Congress
of Psychoanalysis. Its aim is to present a brief report
on some of the author’s professional experiences
including reflections about theoretical and technical
approaches that served as support in this way: the
Operative Groups, Institutional Analysis and Psychoanalysis.
It mentions possible links in these fields emphasizing,
however, that these memories are more valuable due
to its empirical richness than the theoretical treatment
mentioned here.
Finally, it presents a clinical session and invites
the reader to play (Winnicott, 1975), exploring the
great variety of mirror games formed by the reader,
the analyst, the analysand, and the crossing of these
subjectivities that exist in their lives, groups,
institutions and the ideological, juridical-political
and economical reflects, between them.
A psychoanalyst in a General Hospital
The author presents her experience as psychologist
in the Reconstructive Microsurgery Service of the
Hospital dos Servidores do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
(H.S.E.) describing her work of attending patients,
and also her activities as interchange between physician
and psychologist.
She points out that reconstructions of the body may
cause physical changes. After that, she mentions the
consequence in the mind when a body becomes sick,
presenting theoretical aspects about the subjects.
In order to illustrate the theme, the author describes
a clinical case of reconstruction of an orbital tumour.
At last, she presents as a proposal for psycho-reorganization
of the patient the possibility that he should get
a support through speech, comprehension, interpretation
and elaboration of his momentary anxieties.
Key words
Hospital psychology • Psychoanalysis •
reconstruction • body image.
A psychoanalist “pé descalço”
in the community
Joaquim Couto Rosa
The article refers to two field-experiences
in two poor communities which are atended to by the
“Programa de Saúde da Família”
(PSF) (Family Health Programm). In both of them the
author, although not practicing psychoanalytic treatment,
made use of his experience in this practice in order
to relate to emotional and psychological needs of
members of these communities.
In the first experience, a voluntary activity which
lasted for three years, the author shared and participated
in various activities of a PSF team, always seeking
to privilege emotional and psychological aspects.
In the second experience, as teacher for medical psychology
at the Faculdade Médica de Teresópolis-RJ,
the author describes his experience with his medical
students; during a semester the students worked with
families of a poor community registered in this Family
Health Programm.
Key words
Applied psychanalysis
So many families!
Marci Dória Passos
This paper focuses on the family as
the primary space for the construction of the self,
as the original cell of a way of being-in-the-world
and social existence within the cultural order which
determines us. The family has been analyzed from a
number of perspectives and theories. Undeniably a
cultural construct, the family as institution transmits
values, principles, traditions, rites and customs,
whether symbolic or material.
The family is also a space of protection and care
in which we acquire structural features. Conseqüently,
we shall also consider the family as an object of
psychic investment and as a circumstance in which
psychic investment is constructed. Insofar as it generates
and gives consistency to a certain cultural order
which produces effects in each one of its members,
the family occupies a specific social space which
is both fundamental to the child’s psychic make-up
and the very site of this structure.
Finally, we situate our relationships with our mothers,
fathers and others as structural features in our process
towards an always partial autonomy.
Key-words
Psychoanalysis • family • psychic structure.
Social Clinics in the Institutes of psychoanalysis
Maria de Fátima B. Calife Batista
The author describe in this work the
advantages and the problems that shows up on the operation
of a social clinic.Talk about the recently experience
of the Center of Psychoanalysis Therapy and Researches,
founded by S.P.R; in the end raises questions like:
Who are interest in a social clinic? and what contributions
to the preservation of the psychoanalysis?
Key words
Social clinics • institutes of psychoanalysis.
Violence and psychic trauma
as a risk situation in psychoanalysis
Edgar Chagas Diefenthaeler
The article focuses on the risks to
the psyche and the analysis of patients with trauma
developed in adult life due to situations of urban
violence, showing aspects of the transferential relationship.
The current fact is considered pathogenic insofar
as it re-updates primitive primary object-relations.
The traumatic fact is represented in acting-outs and
with its real aspect it creates an intrusion into
the analytic framework, constituting a constant trap,
in which both the patient and the analyst can be caught.
This trap creates a risk of compromising the essence
of the analytic bond, promoting the symbolic repetition
and not the symbolic working through anguishing complexes.
In such cases, especially, the analyst has the permanent
function of restoring the therapeutic process, in
order to seek re-significance of traumatic experiences
so as to integrate them, and thus promote the psychic
growth of the analytic dyad, blocked by the traumatic
emotional experience of the analysand. A clinical
vignette is used to illustrate a few points that are
important in order to understand the theme.
Key words
Urban violence • trauma • Oedipal anxieties
• transference • intrusion • risk.
Literature and psychoanalysis
Marialzira Perestrello
This paper’s main approach is
the inter-relation between Psychoanalysis and Literature
.Examples on the importance and influence of writers
on Freud’s works are given and on the other
hand, Freud’s contemporary authors’ statements
are cited in which they confess Literature’s
debt and their own with Psychoanalysis. Something
is pointed out on Literature as being an object of
study for psychoanalysts. In closing, the author writes
about Freud’s literary aspects as a reader,
as a correspondent, in talks, in lectures ending with
Freud as the writer.
Key words
Reletions between literature-psychoanalysis •
surrealists • Stefan Zweig • Romain Rolland
• Thomas Mann • literary aspects of Freud
• Walter Muschg.
The vicissitudes of the
Psychoanalysis in aged
Maria Cristina Reis Amendoeira
The author proposes a reflection on
the psychoanalytic treatment of old people starting
from the discussion realized in the study groups on
the theme. The social construction of the aging notion
is approached by being considered important for the
understanding of the old’s universe. It is a
period that the illusion of eternity can no long be
sustained and the possibility of pathological mourning
is greater. Feelings of incapacity with problems in
production and creativity arises.
The subjects of defensive reorganizations of the personality
are approached, countertransferences aspects that
overflow in the relationship with the elderly.
Trough psychoanalytic treatment the elderly can assimilate
new representations of object in the psychological
structure having the new feeling of self identity,
reconnecting with inner vitality sources and parts
of their own forgotten or neglected that have in the
influence on the daily life. These crisis contribute
to strength and enrich the character with new organizations
and transformations.
Key words
Ageing • Psychoanalytical technique in advanced
age.
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