Editorial Leopold Nosek	9
	Editorial by Invitation Pedro Gomes de Oliveira Lopes Jr.	11
	Freud’s Letters to Brazil Freud and his interlocutors in Brazil	15
	Dialogues
	“When we are born, we are already old enough to die” Comments to Fabio Herrmann’s interview [RBP, vol. 40, n. 1] Eustachio Portella Nunes	29
	Issues and questions in psychoanalysis Comments to Fabio Herrmann’s interview [RBP, vol. 40, n. 1] Marco Aurélio C. S. Rosa	31
	Portrait of an ever young artist Comments to José Celso Martinez Corrêa’s interview [RBP, vol. 39, n. 4] Marco Antônio Brant Saldanha	36
	Transformations of a psycchoanalyst after devouring an anthropofagus artist   Comments to José Celso Martinez Corrêa’s interview [RBP, vol. 39, n. 4] Raul Hartke	39
	Conferences
	Freud and the future Thomas Mann	49
	Incest and infantile sexuality Jean Laplanche	61
	Articles
	Preserve the wild flowers: adherence, adhesion and lucidity Luís Carlos Menezes	73
	A space for dreaming Decio Gurfinkel	82
	Life, death, creation, and repetition Maria Luiza Gastal	90
	Freud’s presence in the analyst’s identity pathway   Sonia Curvo de Azambuja	105
	Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and the myth of Oedipus Marilza Nutti Savioli	114
	From mother tongue to mother’s language or how to build your language Juan Eduardo Tesone	124
	Psychoanalysis and Literature
	“From existence to life”: homage to Clarice Lispector Noemi Moritz Kon	147
	Finitude and otherness in Fernando Pessoa. Psychoanalytical openings on language Nelson da Silva Jr.	152
	Book Reviews	161
	New Launchings	175
	Publication Norms	181

“When we are born, we are already old enough to die”
Comments to Fabio Herrmann’s interview [RBP, vol. 40, n. 1]
Eustachio Portella Nunes

Abstract: The author highlights Fabio Herrmann’s merit to Brazilian psychoanalysis, and shares his conviction that the teaching of Psychoanalysis should be done through a dogma- free stance and emphasizes the importance which is attributed to the study of dreams as a therapeutic tool in search of greater responsibility for life.
Keywords: Fabio Herrmann, Brazilian psychoanalysis, teaching, dream, life, death.

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Issues and questions in psychoanalysis
Comments to Fabio Herrmann’s interview [RBP, vol. 40, n. 1]
Marco Aurélio C. S. Rosa

Abstract: The author analyze and comments items of Fabio Herrmann’s interview (RBP vol. 40, no. 1): Freud and psychoanalysis’ questioning spirit – the true core of our professional identification; the alienation of present psychoanalysis under the vertex of ambiguity and the value of writing; every time psychoanalysis presents itself as a hermetic text, it tends to alienate itself; the alienation of psychoanalysis at times occurs due to difficulties in its divulgation; Freud always experienced contestations; he established the theoretical body of psychoanalysis through dialectic discourse; theorists distance researchers from reality and in psychoanalysis, it sterilizes the analytical process – fact ignorance tends to make it hide behind some form of theoricism; the analytical relationship is characterized by subtleties and vagueties.
Keywords: ambiguity and value of writing, hermetic text, psychoanalyst’s alienation, dialectical discourse, theoricism and reality, subtleties and vagueties.

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Portrait of an ever young artist
Comments to José Celso Martinez Corrêa interview[RBP vol. 39, n. 4]
Marco Antônio Brant Saldanha

Abstract: The author analyses José Celso Martinez Corrêa’ interview (RBP 39/4). The liaisons between narcissism-altruism, the I and the other, are revealed as an access to sublime through an art exercise as a communion ritual with the public.
Keywords: José Celso Marttinez Corrêa, the I, the other, narcissism, altruism, interpretation, contemporary subject, Moebius band, sublime.

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Transformations of a psychoanalyst after devouring an anthropofagus artist
Comments to José Celso Martinez Corrêa interview[RBP vol. 39, n. 4]
Raul Hartke

Abstract: Taking José Celso Martinez Corrêa’s references (RBP 39/4) to “anthropophagi” proposed by Oswald de Andrade as a starting point, the author playfully questions what might happen to some of the artist’s ideas if they were absorbed and processed from a psychoanalytical vertex. The scenic space, anthropophagi, multi-sided and multi-voiced interpretations, confrontations with restrictive forces, truth as interpretation, for instance, obvious context differences are kept and confronted and related to some contemporary psychoanalytical formulations such as analytic space and its relations with the meaning generator oniric theatre, alpha dream working through and the psychic digestion of facts, open, unsaturated interpretations versus those that are meaning decoders and the parasitic, symbiotic bonds between continent and contained.
Keywords: José Celso Martinez Corrêa, theatre, scenic space, anthropophagi, psychoanalysis, analytic space, alpha dream working through, transformations.

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Freud and the future
Translation: Eva Teperman Ocougne
Thomas Mann

Abstract: This discourse was pronounced by Thomas Mann on May 9, 1936, in Vienna, at the Wiener Akademischer Verein für medizinische Psychologie, as part of the celebration for Freud’s 80th birthday. Being a writer and not a scientist, Mann questions himself on the reason for being chosen to celebrate Freud. He traces a parallel between the ideas of Freud and of philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, among others, and emphasizes the importance of psychoanalysis not only as therapeutics but also as a science that reaches different fields of human knowledge such as philosophy, art, literature and mythology.

Keywords: psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, art, unconscious, myth, celebration.

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Incest and infantile sexuality
Translation: Marcelo Marques
Jean Laplanche

Abstract: In order to articulate the two basic notions, the author indicates, beyond analysis itself, difficulties dealing with conceptions which are placed in different situations: infantile sexuality, apart from family relations, and incest (as well as its taboo), apart from sexuality, intrinsically referred to family relations and its trend to disappearance, presently undefined. Freud finds his way out through the myth of Totem and taboo and phylogenesis. After examining the inconsistency of this resource, the author develops themes such as the incongruence between sexuality and culture, and of the clinical-metapsychological revision in order to provide paradigms of analytical reasoning and therapeutic. In connection to the hypothesis of a fundamental anthropological situation, the hypothesis of a “third topic” in Freud’s theory seeks the integration of both concepts, and the opening of new perspectives.

Keywords: infantile sexuality, incest, drive renounce, fundamental anthropological situation, enigmatic message, translation theory, third topic, phylogenesis.

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Preserve the wild flowers: adherence, adhesion and lucidity
Luís Carlos Menezes

Abstract: The psychoanalytical subject does not exist beyond his social group. The author questions the conditions in which the subject becomes capable of performing lucidity acts which are reached by judgement force. These are produced inversely to the totalizing effect exerted by the terror of being excluded, as a pressure to conformism and to homogeneity and finds its fundaments in theory of primary narcissism. The lucid thought implies a risky detachment of the individual adherence to the group.
The conception of politics and freedom in the Greek world as described by Hannah Arendt, as well as Nietzsche’s diagnosis, which is convergent to Freud’s, of which man is a being which is part of a herd, having to go through heroic transformations in order to reach lucid judgement, revealed themselves as fertile in order to explore this theme. The lucid act of Freud’s thought “first epic poet”, Hannah Arendt’s “miracle” in politics as an unpredictable creative act, and Nietzsche’s metamorphosis in Zaratustra precisely describe the rising of singular “truths”, at the centre of the psychoanalytic experience.

Keywords: totalization, lucidity, narcissism, politics, freedom.

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A space for dreaming
Decio Gurfinkel

Abstract: “Dream space” became an important subject of interest in psychoanalytical research in last decades, and has complemented Freud’s founding work on dream. Without this psychic space – a “dream theatre” –, dreaming breaks down and dream-object simply aborts. In this paper, it will be looked into some aspects regarding dream space constitution through an analytical fragment discussion. The psychic functioning of the patient in focus could not been understood through the concept of “repression”, and, as other patients that live “beyond pleasure principle”, she could not yet explore the dream interpretation world discovered by Freud. The clinical material suggests a transitional function fault that has damaged passage to dreaming and desire function build-up, and provides some indication about how dream space could slowly developed in transferential scene. The author’s hypothesis is: the false presence of an absent mother originates a kind of “negative hallucination” that deletes dream, and it is just after the recognition of the “true of the negative” that dreaming comes out.

Keywords: dream, dream space, psychic space, borderline, transitional phenomena, Freud, Winnicott, desire, negativity.

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Life, death, creation, and repetition.
Maria Luiza Gastal

Abstract: The author examines some points of convergence between psychoanalysis and darwinist biology, regarding the creative function of the mechanisms of destruction. Examining aspects of Darwin and Freud naturalistic ideas, she proposes that this creative dimension of the death instinct, present in the freudian metapsychology, is frequently forgotten by the psychoanalysts, despite its importance and usefulness in the clinic.

Keywords: death instinct, Eros, Thanatos, biology, creativity, Darwin.

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Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and the myth of Oedipus
Marilza Nutti Savioli

Abstract: The purpose of this text is to discuss the relation between to be and to belong for the human being. The myth of Oedipus will be used as reference, from Homer’s epic poetry until its reinterpretation in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sofocles and Euripides. The different approaches for each author will be considered, as well as their respective eras, focusing on the concept of genealogy in the formation of the Greek man in the period from the 8th to the 5th century BC. It examines the world of myth within the emotional dimension, trying to feel it by the sound and the magic of the spoken word. But it will reveal the paradox of the instrument used for its understanding – the written language. The text also points out the beliefs in the sacred domain where epic and tragedy writers were immersed; and another sacred assumption: the belief in the effectiveness of science and technique. Myth, although it may have been reshaped, continues to exert its original function.

Keywords: Oedipus, to be and to belong, genealogy, myth, language

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From mother tongue to mother’s language or how to build your language
Translation: Ana Balkanyi Hoffman
Juan Eduardo Tesone

Abstract: Is the mother’s language truly the mother tongue? I believe that the mother tongue requires a distance from the mother’s language. It needs to recognize mother’s language as the language of the other, making it less solemn, untying it from the presumably natural original of language and unsacre it. To be able to accomplish the initial fusional pain, to be able to abandon the confusion of the absolut One. There is an essential alienation which is inherent to the language itself of any language, which is always the language of the other. The so-called mother tongue is never purely natural, neither owned, nor occupied. There are no original languages in themselves, there is an appropriate language for the arrival, alter the pathway which disalienates the other individual’s desire. The language of the mother, rooted in its drive experience, transmits the universality of language and the mother’s desire.
The mother tongue is a departure language, therefore a pathway language or even arrival languages are not found, a movement explicitedly made by the multilanguage individual of which the monolanguage individual is not freed. So, what are the possible ways that such affect might have in the subject’s internal world, mainly when among the possible destinies of affects, the pathway is made through languages? What is the destiny of such affect when the subject chooses his expression through a so-called foreign language? When he chooses to be in analysis in another language?

Keywords: multilinguism, mother tongue, poliglottism, monolinguism, exile.

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"From existence to life": homage to Clarice Lispector
Noemi Moritz Kon
 

Abstract: As a prologue to the tale “Pen drawing of a little boy”, by Clarice Lispector, this article presents literary narrative as a means to state the possible vision of the mystery of transubstantiation of the infans into a speaking subject: the rising of the symbolic element from within human live material, from primary narcissism, or the development from existence to life. The second part of the article reproduces in full the Brazilian writer’s tale.

Keywords: art, literature, psychoanalysis, origin, primary narcissism, language, infans, Clarice Lispector.

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