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Hospitality in pschoanalytical clinic today
Marcio de Freitas Giovannetti
Summary: The narrative of three clinical cases and the Derrida’s concept of “Hospitality” are taken to put in question the classical concept of psychoanalytical setting for our today’s clinic. The “at home”- as a representation of the self and of the “place in the world” – is a good clinical metaphore to think about the “deconstruction” of a clinical praxis that has been structerd in the beginning of the last century and, also, to the construction of an nowadays clinic.
Key words: hospitality, psichoanalitical setting, constrution, de-construcion, being at home, nowadays clinic
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The fascination of power on the the contemporary society
Miguel Calmon du Pin e Almeida
Summary: Relations between things and words are frayed. In the free-for-all of meanings, social bonds are loosening. This hyper-meaning of the contemporary world is leading to important changes in how social and affective relations are constituted.
Keywords: hyper-meaning, responsibility.
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Depression: environment and creativity
Maria Ivone Accioly Lins
Summary: The purpose of this paper is to study Winnicott’s proposals regarding environmental behavior, seen not only as a key etiological factor in depressive cases but also as an essential element in the emergence of creative processes. The author accordingly sets out from the ideas presented by sociologist Alain Ehrenberg when dealing with depression in the context of the relation between the individual and society. Acknowledging the difference in the perspective and language of both authors is essential in order to avoid using Winnicott’s concepts wrongly when applied to social phenomena. Overcoming depression, followed by resuming creative processes, in women who have undergone affective losses or have been victims of persecution and submitted to social violence, shows the relation between depression and creativity.
Keywords: true and false self, potential space, creativity, environment.
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Social exclusion: traumatic aspects of the contemporary violence
Liana Albernaz de Melo Bastos
Summary: Social exclusion in the contemporary world is about all of us. It comes up as a concern in the international organizations and governments’ agendas. The complexity of the social exclusion phenomena demands many sources of knowledge to lean over it. The traumatic dimension of the social exclusion makes Psychoanalysis a mandatory presence in this debate. Speaking to the political and social science, the panel “Chronic trauma and social exclusion”, presented at the Psychoanalysis International Seminar on July 2005 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, seeks to rescue the humanistic dimension which since Freud, has always been the mark of the Psychoanalysis. The texts produced by Dr. Luiz Eduardo Soares – anthropologist and Cândido Grybowski, sociologist, Renato Lessa, political scientist and Liana Allbernaz de Melo Bastos, psychoanalyst, participants in this panel, show the importance of this dialogue.
Keywords: social exclusion, trauma, psychoanalysis, social and political sciences.
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Truth reconcilliation: the girl that saved herself from violence while holding on to the symbol
Luiz Eduardo Soares
Summary: Social exclusion in the contemporary world is about all of us. It comes up as a concern in the international organizations and governments’ agendas. The complexity of the social exclusion phenomena demands many sources of knowledge to lean over it.
The traumatic dimension of the social exclusion makes Psychoanalysis a mandatory presence in this debate. Speaking to the political and social science, the panel “Chronic trauma and social exclusion”, presented at the Psychoanalysis International Seminar on July 2005 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, seeks to rescue the humanistic dimension which since Freud, has always been the mark of the Psychoanalysis.
The texts produced by Dr. Luiz Eduardo Soares – anthropologist and Cândido Grybowski, sociologist, Renato Lessa, political scientist and Liana Allbernaz de Melo Bastos, psychoanalyst, participants in this panel, show the importance of this dialogue.
Keywords: symbolic dimension, violence, preservation, hip hop, separation, traumatic experience
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David Hume in Auschwitz: notes on trauma and the supression of ordinary beliefs
Renato de Andrade Lessa
Summary: Social exclusion in the contemporary world is about all of us. It comes up as a concern in the international organizations and governments’ agendas. The complexity of the social exclusion phenomena demands many sources of knowledge to lean over it.
The traumatic dimension of the social exclusion makes Psychoanalysis a mandatory presence in this debate. Speaking to the political and social science, the panel “Chronic trauma and social exclusion”, presented at the Psychoanalysis International Seminar on July 2005 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, seeks to rescue the humanistic dimension which since Freud, has always been the mark of the Psychoanalysis.
The texts produced by Dr. Luiz Eduardo Soares – anthropologist and Cândido Grybowski, sociologist, Renato Lessa, political scientist and Liana Allbernaz de Melo Bastos, psychoanalyst, participants in this panel, show the importance of this dialogue.
Keywords: social exclusion, trauma, psychoanalysis, social and political sciences.
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The question of sense, intersubjectivity and the objetc-relations theories
Luis Claudio Figueiredo
Summary: in this text the author proposes a conceptualization of psychoanalytical treatment in terms of three basic operations, which are containment, interpelation\confrontation and recognition. These three operations correspond to three modalities of intersubjectivity which operate in the process of psychic constitution,i.e. trans-subjective intersubjectivity, traumatic intersubjectivity and interpersonal intersubjectivity. They constitute, in their dynamic articulations, the individual’s internal world, which in the author’s view is what is conceived as intrapsychic intersubjectivity. The capacity/activity of “giving meaning” is seen as the most basic one in mental life and psychoanalytic practice viewed as providing an expansion of this capacity and not as a cure oriented treatment. On those terms, the analyst operates via transference in the patient’s intrapsychic world, personifying the three modalities of intersubjective relationships specified above.
Keywords: objetct-relations, sense, intersubjectivity, analytical treatment
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Intersubjectivity: progress in psycho-analysis?
Odilon de Mello Franco Filho
Paulo Cesar Sandler
Summary: This paper tdeals with the remarkable growing mentions about the so-called ´Intersubjectivity´ in the psychoanalytic literature. The sheer numbers of mentions allows one to state that intersubjectivity constitutes a current trend in the psychoanalytic movement.
Our starting point is to scrutinize the notion of “Analyst-Patient Interaction”. It underlies the Intersubjectivist approch. The authors formulate three questions: (i) is there any epistemologic consistency in the concept of interaction? If it exusts at all, what it is? t is, more often than not, stated as a given, concrete, a priori fact, with no epistemologic scrutiny; (ii) is that which the Intersubjectivist authors define as interaction a mere contingency of the analytic process, or is it something that is a main bearing of the analytic process? Thew Intersubjectivist authors state the latter, again, with no critival scrutiny. (iii) as a matter of consequence of (i) and (ii), is the Intersubjectivist movement, a development and an offshoot of the psychoanalytic thinking? Is it a break from Freud´ formulations of psychoanalysis?
The study includes a review of the authors that can be regarded as forerunners of Intersubjectivity. It researches the epistemologic roots of intersubjetcivism/interactionism. It also forwards two integrative views that try to by-pass the “intra versus inter” conundrum that underlies the psychoanalytic conflict between two seemingly diverse currents.
The issues raised by the study funish an opportunity to ponder about the epistemes underlying our discipline, psycho-analysis itself. Therefore the authors try to perform an epistemological analysis, rather than criticize a new point of view in the psychoanalytic movement.
Keywords: psychoanalysis, intersubjectivism, relations theory, subjectivism, epistemology.
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The analyst´s mind and autistic transformations
Célia Fix Korbivcher**
Summary: This paper integrates two areas of thinking: one in which the author develops considerations regarding observation methods of mental phenomena in psychoanalysis, according to Bion’s Theory of Transformations; the other in which she is concerned with the investigation of primitive mental states - proto-mental states - more specifically, the autistic states of neurotic patients, described by Frances Tustin.
Some ideas on the “philosophical” posture underlying the Theory of Transformations are elaborated, specially emphasizing the idea that the same phenomenon in psychoanalysis may be considered from different vertices, as long as it is situated within the theoretical reference to which it belongs. The author cogitates about the idea that this way of phenomena observation is part of a wider context of general human knowledge, in which uncertainty and relativity of concepts are the main ingredients.
By adopting the Theory of Transformations as a vertex of phenomena observation that pervades the analytical meeting, the author questions whether it is possible to include other types of transformations of emotional experiences in this theory, which would highlight particular phenomena with specific qualities, distinct from those emphasized by Bion.
The author hypothesizes that autistic phenomena present in neurotic patients, characterizing autistic states, may be considered and distinguished, making up a particular group of Transformation, which the analyst often faces in his/her daily practice. She proposes the term Autistic Transformations to name it.
Keywords: the analyst´s mind, autistic transformations, autistic phenomena, chaotic universe, sense dominated phenomena.
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Learning from emotional experience. And then? Turbulence!
Cecil José Rezze
Summary: The aim of this work is to consider the interlacing of the concepts, as it can be grasped in the clinic, and its potentiality of awakening turbulence.
Emotional experience is something considered in poetry, writing, tragedy, cinema, in short, in life. What gives value to the term is to learn with the experience, thus the use of the alpha function.
In Bion’s successive works, we have an obscuration of the concept to learn that has a wide development through its assimilation, giving origin to new conceptualizations as that of transformations.
From the clinical elements one can think of the possibility of transformations in rigid motion, projective and in hallucinosis, having the emotional experience as a discriminating instrument. The evolution to Transformations in knowledge and in 0, together with the concept of invariance send back to the interlacing with truth. The thought is examined in its function of promoting knowledge. The concept expands itself to that of a thought without a thinker.The examination of structures and embryonic remains deepen the questioning about the founding elements of the mind. Doors are opened for new theoretical considerations.
Turbulence accompanies the experience.
Key words: to learn, emotional experience, alpha-function, transformations in rigid motion, projective and in hallucinosis, O, wild thoughts, stray thoughts, vestigial tail, adrenals, somites, turbulence.
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Configurations of prison and freedom. Technical considerations with teenagers
Silvana Maria Bonini Vassimon de Figueiredo
Summary: the theoretical approaches both of psychosomatic symptoms and ‘modern addictions’ converge to the same moment of mental development: the first state of non-representation, statement of the primary narcissism where the self/object indifferentiation prevails. Addiction and somatization appear as resources with a tampon function, as to enable psychic survival - ‘patch’ solutions, precariously and roughly sewn in the construction of a continent. The clinic of non-psychotic young patients with important narcissistic disorders has found an important therapeutic tool in Bion’s contributions. The experience with some adolescents yields arguments on the use of a relational focus in the clinical work: it points to the particular condition of the analyst to exercise hospitality for the unlived experiences of his patients, supplying a new model of mind and relation.
Keywords: tampon function, tamponage, intermittent continent
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Weaving the container: thought as sensorial surface
Paulo de Moraes Mendonça Ribeiro
Summary: Taking as a starting point clinical observation on how ‘thinking’ works and how some patients in analysis use their ‘thoughts’, the author proposes a reflection on the development of the container ( ) and the container÷contained ( ) relations in the mind of the analysand and in the analytical relationship.
There are situations in which the analysand deals with archaic aspects of his/her development and experiences anguishes in the so-called “autistic-contiguous position” proposed by Thomas Ogden. These experiences are related to personality’s dispersion towards the infinite and shapeless void… In these states, the analysands may make use of defenses from the “autistic-contiguous position” which aims at reestablishing a “sensorial ground” (Grotstein) that is perceived as being tattered or exploded. ‘Thoughts’ and the act of ‘thinking’ can be used as defenses in the attempt to reestablish the “sensorial ground”. The author refers to this mode as “thought as sensorial surface”, to the extent that, by using ‘thought’ as the defense of the “autistic-contiguous position”, what matters is not the contents of thought ( ) but its ‘sensorial aspects’, which are used in the attempt (many times creative) of reestablishing a container ( ) capable of containing contents ( ) in a consistent and lasting manner.
There are other situations, in which the patient develops a circular and reverberating ‘thinking’, which, similarly to the ‘thought as a sensorial surface’, functions as a defense that calms the patient down. However, they are not dispersion anguishes, but a perverse mechanism (Bion’s -K activity), which seeks evasion from the emotional experience. It is a kind of functioning under the aegis of the “compulsion to repetition” (Freud). The author refers to this mode as “thought as fetish”.
Both modes of ‘thought’ are far from what Bion called “verbal thought”; nevertheless, the “thought as sensorial surface”, related to the structuring of the container ( ), goes in this direction, and the “thought as fetish” goes in the opposite one. It is of utmost importance to differentiate both aspects in the psychoanalytical clinic, since there are great technical differences in dealing with each one of them.
Key words: thought as sensorial surface, thought as fetish, autistic-contiguous position, sensorial ground, obsessive neurosis, container, contained, container-contained relation, self-calming procedures, self-sensual, unisonous.
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The Night and its sons (the Sleep and the Death) and nightmares along childhood
Ane Marlise Port Rodrigues
Summary: Through an analogy with the myth about the Night and its sons (the Sleep and the Death), the author highlights how the angsts regarding death or the loss of control can invade the sleep and generate sleeping disorders in childhood. Some nightmares are reported at different ranges. Its is also reported that the night can be the scenario of a passage ritual from adolescence do adulthood, in the search of the couple formation, from a group of teenagers. The author finishes with the fable of Ceix and Alcione and relates the couple formation and the generation of babies with the possibility of leaving together the internal parental couple, either by giving one another pleasure, or procreating, or resting. This possibility is seen as an enhancer of less internal noise and as a facilitator of relaxing sleep.
Keywords: Night, Sleep, death, nightmares, infancy, adolescence.
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