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The
biological power: what can the psychoanalysis?
Adalberto Antonio Goulart*
Summary:
The Author begins the text remembering that Freud
always sustained the thesis that psychoanalysis was
a fraction of the natural sciences and however preoccuped
with the relation between body and mind, privileged
the psychologic aspects of the psychossoma. So was
also with the principal authors that came after. At
the last decades, strained by the primitives pathologies
most predominance, the somatic dimension has awaked
the attention of contemporanies authors (Bion, Winnicott,
McDougall, Green). With a clinic fragment this work
try to exemplify the body memory (Fontes, 2002) emerged
in transference / countertransference phenomenon.
The text is developped seeking accentuate the importance
that psychoanalysts understand that the unity psychossomatic
can not to be divorced, what will result in big damage
to the human sistem. In front of the biologic power
and the time that destroy it, sustained by the Ferrari’s
hypothesis, the author make a question: what could
the psychoanalysis do graves sickness and terminal
patients? He concludes reinforcing that the analyst
needs respect before the unconscius, but too humbleness
before the nature and the time. In such case, though
extremes situations, when space and time are condensed,
the psychoanalysis can be useful to help the patients
to dream that not dreamed yet.
Key words: biology,
time, body memory, psychossoma, terminal patients,
transference, countertransference.
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Lack of power and helplessness
Leila Tannous Guimarães **
Summary:
The study reflects the lack of power and helplessness
from a brief description of social, political and
cultural events that show the tendencies of contemporaneous
life and the impact they can cause upon the human
subjectivity. It aims the discussion about the lack
of power and helplessness related to questions concerning
to trauma, trying to point out the “passivity”
of the individual facing tragic and violent situations
that can cause intense emotional repercussion. The
helplessness is related to the state of anguish, a
painful experience in which one can see himself helpless
and than, out of his self, without anything that can
protect him from catastrophic experiences, fear and
lack of hope. It takes back the importance of the
concept of trauma from Freud to the most recent authors,
highlighting the theoretical developments in psychoanalysis
in conjunction with the contemporaneous clinic of
lack of power and helplessness. It considers that
the expressivity of neurosis found out in the 20th
century is nowadays limited compared to the frequency
of the multi-determined pathologies, as well as psychosomatics,
narcissism disorder and borderline, where we observe
existentialistic empties and several deficiencies
of egóicas functions, demanding from the analyst
a review of the classic clinic.
Key words:
power, lack of power, violence, helplessness, trauma,
re-signification of trauma, subjectivity.
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Fear of insecurity
Alicia Beatriz Dorado de Lisondo*
Summary:
The insecurity is the structuring mark of the human
condition, with death in the horizon. The privation
and/or the perturbation in the exercise of the power
makes a hole in the existential sense of life. The
idealization has an ontological sense and not only
the pathological one as a defense.
The belief in God is supported by the man’s
search for security. The authority is inspired in
Eros, the authoritarism in Thanatos.
The authority function requires care, respect, responsibility,
disposition, hope, faith, in order to create the conditions
for the psychic development. The structure of the
leader’s subjectivity allows the power. The
power and the faith in the psychoanalysis and the
psychoanalytical institutions are also explored.
Key words: insecurity,
the importance of the other in psychic structuration,
authority, authoritarism, lack of power, ,aith in
religion, faith in psychoanalysis, the power of psychoanalysis
and psychoanalytical institutions.
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From impotence to the impossible
Tania B. Leão Pedrozo*
Summary:
The author considers the sense of abandonment in relation
to the absence of power in its different forms of
manifestation. In subjective terms, there is a link
between the absence of power and the weakenning or
even an erasure of the paternal function, determining
a non-orientation towards the father as the law representative.
In a culture like that, the sadist superego acts as
an authoritarian voice demanding: “Work!”
“Suffer!” “Be happy!” The
subjects tend not to be implicated in the public affairs
and they act like mere observers. In the social level,
the change in the value of the objects in the consumer
society is related to a redefinition of the moral
objectives of the persons. The meaning of the objects
depends on the relation between subject and world.
The subjects adopt different strategies to deal with
the non-completion or fault. The depressions and the
drugs are some of the ways of dealing with desire
and castration.
What tools does Psychoanalysis have to handle this
situation?
Key words: paternal
function, sadist superego, abandonment, desire.
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Cartographying the despair
Aida Maria Moraes Ungier*
Summary:
Supported by the reflexions of Michel Foucault and
Zygmunt Bauman, the author thinks over the transformations
observed in the structure and in the relationship
of power in contemporarity, coupling such reflexions
with the lacanian concept of the decline of the father
function. Her aim is to question wheter such changes
would foment new expressions of discontent and if
the freudian proposal could fulfill the challenges
of contemporary clinics.
Key words: power,
contemporanity, helplessness, creativity.
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Psychoanalysis
and power: the usefulness of the concept of destructive
narcissism
Ana Cristina D. Guimarães*
Summary:
The use of power by individuals or groups depends
on the forces acting inside them. The idea that power
is related to destructiveness or violence is not exclusive
of psychoanalysts. In this paper the author examines
some ideas expressed by Freud in the thirties related
to the death instinct as a powerful force behind the
motivations in search of power and war. She stresses
how, in the seventies, Rosenfeld develops the concept
of destructive narcissism based on the failure of
fusional processes leading to the dominance of death
instinct. This is a fundamental concept for understanding
pathologies intimately related to the biased use of
power. The author presents a clinical situation in
which a minor event is hiding the destructive potential
of a patient. Like others, he is a person living a
double life. He is blackmailed by himself most of
the time. He lives under a tyrannical power.
Key words: power,
life instinct, death instinct, fusion, destructive
narcissism, envy.
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Power is the major aphrodisiac
Leopold Nosek* Summary:
The author intends to focus the theme power within
the perversions field. Among the basic instincts that
are present, the phallic form is the one that best
configures the theme that is presented both on normality
and on psychopathological anomaly. A historical metaphor
is used in order to locate the relation between perverse
sexuality and death.
Key words:
power, perversion, childish sexuality.
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The absent power and its psychopatological
consequences
Sergio Antonio Cyrino da Costa*
Summary:
This work tries to investigate the ambivalence, along
the history of the psychoanalytic movement to the
current days, that involves the dissidences and dismemberments
of the psychoanalytic institutions from the cell-mater
International Psychoanalytical Association, IPA. At
the same time that the members question the presence
of laws and rules of the central power, they are resented
of the lack of the function of aggregate and structure
that the same institution acts and it carries out,
sent back to it.
Key words: psychoanalytic
institutions, power, IPA, divergences, ambivalences,
structures, trust.
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Representation kidnapping and trauma
Raquel Plut Ajzenberg*
Summary:
This study deals with the trauma from the surprinsing
situations that hurt the individual. It will analyze
the consequences on psychism and especially about
the difficulties in the representation process. It
comprehends the importance of the external and psychic
factors as being closely connected and their effects
will be several, according to the individuals availability.Illustrated
with a clinical case in which the patient suffers
a kidnapping and describes how the therapy sessions
were used as a space to search for representation
for the metabolization process of the traumatic event.
Key words: trauma,
representation, kidnapping, metabolization.
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Soma
and representation
Alexandre Kahtalian
Summary:
The author shows the main difficulties in dealing
with the sequestration of mental representation in
an adolescent patient that had a childhood somatic
trauma. He discusses news theoretical ideas and the
possibility of having a better knowledge through exploration
of the intersubjective field for the psychoanalytic
process.
Key words: trauma,
representation, intersubjectivity, self, empathy,
psicossomatic, reconstruction.
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Indifference, arbitrariness and
psychic suffering
Carlos Roberto Saba*
Summary:
The author, in this paper, write about his own ideas
on indifference, arbritarity and psychic suffering,
starting from mother-inborn attachment. Tries to evaluate
a variety of attachment structures where there is
indifference as main feeling, understanding them under
the psichoanalitical view, as also, tries to understand
arbitrarity, in correlation with indiference, leeding
to psychic suffering of pacients and even analists.
Key words: indifference,
arbitrariness, psychic suffering, narcissism, bonds,
mother-baby relationship, power, affective emptiness.
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Ideal and idealization in power’s
plot
José Otávio Fagundes*
Summary:
The author examines the theme through psychoanalytic
literature and mythology. He refers to the power of
the ideals as a mental capacity arisen from the symbolization
of the concreteness of the instincts. He refers to
the power idealization as an abuse of power and manifestation
of the primary narcisism, which is characteristic
of authoritarianism. Power with authority doesn`t
involve abuse, but the true use of power, symbol of
justice and creativity. A vignette of a clinical case
is presented.
Key words: power,
ego ideal, narcisism, idealization, authority, authoritarianism,
simbolization, mythology, knowledge.
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Impotence feeling
Maria Helena Lima de Oliveira Castro*
Summary:
The author examines physical pain, psychological pain,
suffering and impotence, based on some ideas of philosophers
and psychoanalysts. She presents clinical material,
emphasizing the impotence feelings experienced by
the analyst and the patient.
Key-words:
physical pain, psychological pain, suffering, impotence
feeling.
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Solitude,
tedium and helplessness: A vision under the light
of narcissism
Gisele de Mattos Brito*
Summary:
This paper is a reflection on the feeling of solitude,
tedium and helplessness under the vertex of narcissism.
The author utilizes clinical material in which she
demonstrates how the reduction of narcissistic defenses
exposes the patient to a profound feeling of solitude,
tedium and helplessness, as well as to a prominent
anguish of handing himself over to the relation with
the analyst, of trusting and dealing with the feeling
that he ‘is alone and at the same time dependent’
(Bion) and need the other to love, share and grow.
It points out that even though the feeling of solitude
is never overcome, there is a profound difference
between the feeling of solitude and helplessness linked
to psychotic anxieties, in which narcissism is structured,
and the feeling of solitude linked to depressive anxieties.
In the first, the disintegration experiences prevail.
In the second, there is an experience of integration
with all the mental pain inherent to the process.
Key words: narcissism,
defense, trauma, envy, solitude, helplessness, dependence.
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Solitude in post-modernity
Sylvia Salles Godoy de Souza Soares*
Summary:
This paper analyses an enormous lonely feeling, as
a sub product of the modern society. It establishes
the connection between a lifestyle based on individualism
and narcissism as well as the work of mourning, and
the gap created on mental representations. The author
highlights the loneliness of abandoned individuals
(real of symbolic), emphasizing the loneliness of
elder people. It illustrates facts of reality: a young
woman focuses on her new affair and leaves her children
alone in the darkness, without any regret. A middle
age man, who fights to keep his social status -as
the only way to represent himself– and doesn’t
even consider that his mother is totally abandoned.
Elder women, reminiscences of their dead husbands,
are isolated due to the losses incurred during life.
The paper concludes the analysis considering that
this emptiness, unable the individual to represent
his real live and this incapacity to perform as an
ordinary person is called solitude.
Key words: solitude,
post-modernity, individualism, narcissism helplessness,
mourning, mental representation.
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Parental crimes: consequences
of sexual abuse by parents
Maria Ines Neuenschwander Escosteguy Carneiro*
Summary:This
paper intends to raise questions as to the possibilities
that may occur during a analytical process of sexual
abused children . Filicide, a phantasy inherent to
human beings, is considered in this paper regarding
the abuses impinged by parents. The object, a parental
figure, being the actual traumatizer, will cause serious
disturbances in the inner world of the subject-child;
besides, such painful and cruel experiences will also
impair the relation to external reality. The reenactment
of those facts will be an important part of the analytical
process. Reparation, the main goal of all analysises,
will be greatly damaged, due to intense hatred . The
transference will suffer the increase of attacks originally
addressed to parental figures. Persevering will be
a necessary issue to the analyst.
Keywords: filicide,
enactment, parental crime, object relations, transference.
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Crime
and violence: clincal aspects
José Luiz Meurer*
Summary:
The aim of this paper is to examine some ideas presented
by outstanding phychoanalytic authors dealing with
the importante issue of crime and violence, such as
it appears in the analytic situation and in the social
milieu. It highlights the roots of criminal tendencies
in primitive mental states and under the influence
of anxieties and defenses relating to the Oedipus
conflict, as viewed by S. Freud and M. Klein. It stresses
also the action of aggressive, violent impulses and
unconscious phantasies against objects and situations
perceived as frustrating; it mentions poor control
by the ego of such impulses and drives, and the action
of projective identification that all have an expression
in criminal and violent behavior and acting-out, as
well as in the transference.
Key words: crime, violence, criminality, criminal
tendencies, destructive impulses, violent acting-out.
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What does a child want?
Maria Silvia Regadas de M. Valladares*
Summary:
The author, through clinical vignettes, high lights
the primitive relationships, where the basis of ones
personalities are structuralized, as a important key
to understanding psychic disorders borderlines in
the adult life.
Key words:
primitive relationships, psychic disorders, borderlines,
prevention.
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The
dictatorship of efficiency
Fernanda de Medeiros Arruda Marinho*
Summary:
The author approaches the proposed theme from the
view of a necessary vertex restriction implied in
those who live under “the dictatorship of efficiency”.
She considers Bion’s concept of binocular vision
useful to understand the phenomenon observed in the
wide variety in which different degrees of mental
development are found, from evident aspects in obsessive
disturbances to those which are peculiar to psychotic
personalities. With the presentation of fragments
from two clinical cases, one of her own and another
described by Hans Thorner, she explores the characteristic
processes of dissociation and exclusion which result
in immensurable harms not only to the individual,
but to the group in its civilization process.
Key words:
efficiency, vertex, binocular vision, success/failure.
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Psychoanalysis
and Psychosynthesis
José Antônio Pavan*
Summary:
The approach of this work is to consider some specificities
of the psychoanalytic praxis related to the science
and the efficiency conceptions. Specifically it intends
to think about the insertion of psychoanalytic clinic
among the possible approaches of the human mind confronted
with the problems found in its development.
Key words: psychoanalysis;
psychosynthesis; efficiency.
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