What is Multiple Fields Theory -
Fabio Herrmann, São Paulo

This paper refers to two lectures of the course What is Multiple Fields Theory, given to the 43rd IPAC, New Orleans 2004, including a few notes, specially prepared for this publication. The author shows the origins and main characteristics of this new orientation in psychoanalytical thought, using as guidelines the original problems it deals with. In the first part, the unconscious and the question of consciousness — which has been reduced to immediacy, transparency, and finally reason, to accommodate the classical concept of unconscious. In the second part, the theme is the psychoanalytic method, as origin and general shape of our knowledge, and essence of our clinical techniques.

Key words
Multiple Fields Theory • unconscious • consciousness • psychoanalytic method • history of psychoanalysis.

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The infinite unconscious in Bion and Matte-Blanco
Ignacio Gerber, São Paulo

In the works of Bion and Matte-Blanco the idea’s articulation point to an emcompassing concept: the infinity – or O, ultimate reality, absolute truth, the godhead, ... the Unconscious. In this essay I try to problemize the infinite unconscious in both authors, relating it to the “evenly suspended attention” postulated by Freud as the founding therapeutic attitude in psychoanalysis.

Keywords
Unconscious • aconscious • infinite • O • Bion • Matte-Blanco • psychoanalityc process.

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Supervision: the exercise of paternal function in Psychoanalysis
Martha Maria de Moraes Ribeiro, Ribeirão Preto
Maria Letícia Wierman, Ribeirão Preto

From an analytic experience with a patient where the functioning of primitive areas of her mind prevail, the authors study some theoretical and technical suppositions and develop some ideas on the use of the paternal role in supervision.
The supervisor shows that she performs the obstructive, differentiating, symbolization paternal role, when she helps the supervisee to break the dual relationship (initial symbiosis) that occurs between patient and analyst. She observes, and participates in those moments of the session when that symbiosis changes from “constructive” to “obstructive”. The essential paternal role, in the supervisor’s mind is metaphorically expressed, thus supporting the development of this role in the supervisee’s mind, during her analytic training and favoring autonomy.

Keywords
Supervision • paternal function.

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Silent communication: reflections about the nonverbal language in Winnicott's 'theory
Maria Vitória Campos Mamede Maia, Rio de Janeiro

In the present article the author held an articulation between the importance of the primary aggressiveness and the silent communication for the baby constitution and creativity, as also reflect about the consequences of the intrusion in the relation between mother and baby that breaks the baby's going-on-being.

Keywords
Silent communication • primary aggressiveness • communication • creativity • Winnicott.

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Psychoanalysis and Children: a Clinical overview
Mércia Maranhão Fagundes, Ribeirão Preto

The author, a psychoanalyst, aims at describing her clinical experience in Children Psychoanalysis in this paper. She opts not to stick to theoretical explanations, highlighting how the analytical process works in children in her personal experience.
Working with four or five sessions a week, she respects the technical specifications for children analysis.
In her observations she points out that the extreme fluidity of infantile mind, seeing in the development of the analytical relationship, demands a freer spirit of the analyst. The attention of the reader is called by the fact that, also during childhood the analytical process has beginning, middle and end, not always showing abrupt and traumatic breakdowns.
She refers to the relationship between the analyst and the child’s parents in a special way, stressing the extreme necessity of a harmonious one for the maintenance and development of the analytical process.

Keywords
Child Psychoanalysis • mental fluidity • relationship with the parents.

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Fantasy and real trauma: the impact of the intrusive identification in the analytical process
Jacó Zaslavsky, Porto Alegre

The author approaches the traumatic situations and the associated fantasies, starting with primitive identifications, emphasizing their influence in the structuring of the psychic life, in the ego and identity development, in the patterns of object relationships, in the capacity to think about the emotions and in the acquisition of cognitive and affective capacities. He illustrates it with the clinical material from a patient’s analysis whose character structure was based upon the primitive intrusive identification with the mother and was shown under the form of structured unconscious fantasies and related with the infantile traumatic experience. Through the “Claustrum” concept, he tries to show some possibilities for the understanding and the psychoanalytic approach of the patient’s claustrum inside the mother.

Key words
Phantasy • real trauma • intrusive identification • claustrum.

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The use of intersubjectivity as a supplement to the contextualization of dream report
Regina Helena Manhães Neves, São Paulo

The dream and its retelling as derivatives of the patient’s psychic reality require the joint elaboration of the analysis of the patient/analyst couple.
This work focuses on the concept that while the retelling of a dream during a session may maintain the same theme of the drama dreamed; it actually takes placed in another moment and in another space (the analytic space). This space is decorated with its own setting (mainly, it is expected, inside the mind of each individual of the couple), thus becoming a different elaboration that seeks to include the emotional experience of that moment.
This work touches on several of the changes that have taken place in classical analysis and to changes that the analyst has undergone, like the inclusion of his subjectivity as a technical instrument.
The psychoanalysis dealt with is one of intersubjectivity and is focused on the interaction between the different organizations of the subjective worlds of both the analyst and the patient.
Dream retelling has been considered an analytical event – an intersubjective event following the transfer and countertransfer by several analysts, Isakower (1938), Lewin (1950) Atwood & Stolorow (1984) and Ogden (1986). This work presents the first three dreams of a borderline patient, in analysis for six years, and the resonance they provoked in the analyst’s mind that help contextualize them.

Key words
Subjectivity • intersubjectivity • dialectical • the intersubjective analytic third • transfer/countertransfer.

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From projective identification to enactment: a itinerary to the reparation of the
body-mind split
Maria Beatriz Simões Rouco, São Paulo

Psychoanalysis was born in the realms of modern paradigm clinically treating the body-mind dissociation disturbs promoted by it. In this way Psychoanalysis has performed an important role in the construction of a contemporary complex way of thought. This article is part of a major study that develops this idea. It starts off considering Klein’s concept of projective identification goes through Heimann’s conceptualization of the countertransference and finally leads to the Mc Laugfhlin’s concept of enactment. The author have observed along this study, how the clear distinction between Klein’s internal and external world move to a pre-reflective shared world, studied by Winnicott in the baby-mother couple. In its broad sense, the author thinks that enactment implies a theoretical overcoming of the typical modern mind-body splitting. This reveals the progressive acceptation of the concreteness of psychic reality discovered by Freud. In this manner, we can understand how psychic reality reveals itself in conscious experience, unconscious phantasy, corporeal expression and relational behavior occurring in a similar or complementary way between client and psychoanalyst in the clinical situation. We can also understand how pathology may be characterized by dissociations among these modes of expression.

Key words
Projective identification • enactment • body-mind split • modern paradigm.

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The author develops elaborations that seek to approach the compound and perplexed concept of perversions.
Starting from the idea about the good sexuality and bad sexuality developed by Meltzer; having as a backdrop the formulations on “ spurious objects “ fruits of distorted conceptions, elaborated by Money-Kyrle, it assembles the concept on the “ work of the negative “ of Green.
Through those vertexes, it delineates ideas about interactions among the destructive parts of the mind, that starting from misrepresented objects and cunning uses of the thought, which empty and impoverish the mental life and block the cognitive development of the personality, disabling the scope of intimacy relationships and learning with the experience.

Key words
Perversion • to distort • to misrepresent • cunning.