If you insist my music goes against the rules…
Comment to Almeida Prado’s interview
Luiz Fernando Guedes Gallego Soares
Abstract: In the present article the author discusses various themes obtained from an interview with composer Almeida Prado. The author points out that even though Freud had worked with applied psychoanalysis he restricted his contribution to the field of literature and plastic arts. Items related to “applied psychoanalysis”, developed by Heinz Kohut in his pioneer work about music, are here summarized, together with Kohut’s ideas about the relationship between music and psychic phenomena, especially in relation to the difficulties with atonal music, extensively dealt in this interview.
Keywords: Freud; applied psychoanalysis; music; cinema; ego psychology; self psychology; Kohut; rhythm; atonal music; Alain Resnais; intersubjectivity.
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Almeida Prado, composer, beginner’s mind
Comment to Almeida Prado’s interview
Ignacio Gerber
Abstract: I comment the two main pathways that called my attention the most during the interview. The first one refers to the musician’s creative freedom as well as the artist’s, the psychoanalyst’s whenever imposed by institutions and the audience. The second one concerns the relations between musical language and the feelings it triggers in us. Beyond words, music lightens protofeelings within the human being’s nucleu.
Keywords: music; sound; silence.
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Acting, enactment and “in scene”psychic reality in the analytical treatment
of borderline structures
Mauro Gus
Abstract: The author presents a meta psychological and conceptual recollection of acting and enactment using a clinical case with technical applicability and resources demanded from the analyst by the clinic nowadays, taking into consideration the need for theoretical pluralism and counter transference availability directed to the most difficult access patients, particularly the ones with structures of predominantly narcissistic nature and borderline pathologies.
Keywods: transference; counter transference; acting; enactment; psychic reality; unconscious fantasy; representation; figurability; analytical field; intersubjectivity; projective and introjective identification.
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Bion and Tustin. The autistic phenomena and Bion’s reference system:
a proposal for approach
Célia Fix Korbivcher
Abstract: The author verifies the possibility of incorporating Bion’s reference system, the autistic phenomena for neurotic patients as described by Tustin. She expands the discussion which was initiated in previous papers in regard to “autistic transformations”, aiming to verify the coherence within the theory of transformations as a whole. For this reason, she examines the relationship between autistic phenomena and emotional bonding with beta elements and also tries to locate them in the grid. She questions about which of the mental dimensions would belong to autistic phenomena. The incorporation of autistic phenomena, according to Bion, results in an enlargement in this reference in the field of phenomena, from the neurosis and psychosis area to the autistic one. She develops a discussion regarding the possible disorganization that this enlargement can provoke in the theoretical system utilized by Bion in Transformations.
Keywords: Bion’s reference system; autistic phenomena; emotional bonds; beta elements; tropisms; grid.
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“Pseudo-pseudomature” adolescents : a study of the psychoanalytical clinic presently
Viviane Sprinz Mondrzak
Abstract: This paper sets out from the realization of the frequency with which presently in the clinic, there are cases of adolescents that are unable to break a latent structure, that present themselves according to a picture which is described by the author as “pseudo-pseudomaturity”. Such pictures are different from the description of “pseudomaturity” due to the absence of an omnipotent stance of dependence denial. On the contrary, these are youngsters that seem to look for an opportunity to keep their true child self contained in order to feel secure to enter the adolescence process. Using the fragment of the analysis of a 19 year-old youngster, technical issues related to these cases are discussed, while emphasizing the analyst’s mental processes and the importance of being able to contain the emotional turbulence which cannot be sensed by the patient. The psychoanalytical process two-way commitment is such cases with the patient and with society as a whole is outlined due to the creative potential which they present, essential for change and growth.
Keywords: adolescence; pseudomaturity; false self, setting.
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Clinical practice and the freudian ethics in corruption times
Laura Ward da Rosa
Abstract: The author looks for to examine the subject of the corruption, so present at the Brazilian and world-wide current moment, making a linking with the elements cited for Freud, in Civilization and its Discontents, as one of the reasons of misfortune in the social life. She emphasizes the basic importance of the analyst as preserving the ethical place of the truth of the unconscious one of analyzing, that it will be disclosed by the psychoanalytic treatment, since the setting offers the security and the consistency for its revelation. On the other hand, it is cited the thought of different authors on the subject, as philosophers, sociologists and psychoanalysts and salient the importance of the prevention of the antisocial manifestations through the precocious detention of the small delicts of day-by-day, since infancy until the adult age, of the slips of behavior that can pass unfurnished in the common life.
Keywords: corruption; ethics; misfortune; analyst; truth; unconscious; civilization.
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Getting to know the unconscious: the experience of teaching psychoanalysis
in university to third year students in the psychology graduation course
Francisco Carlos dos Santos Filho
Abstract: Knowing the unconscious requires scientific dedication, affective depth and sensitivity for the inter-human experience. If in the psychoanalytical tradition, transmission and training are mutually built during theoretical seminars, supervision and personal analysis, in the graduation situation this is not the case. Restricted to the classroom and to theoretical transmission we increase the risk for a superficial and theoretical teaching, which aborts the density of the psychoanalytical clinical process and leads to the loss of enthusiasm for this work, opening space for intellective, persuasive and suggestive practices. How can we introduce the young student to the clinical experience and provide him with a conceptual basis that is supportive without creating an exceedingly resistant barrier in the teaching-learning process? With the “interview lab” we have sought transmission in the frontier between the theoretical and the experience which is undividable from the learner’s subjective experience. We intend to discuss, through the students’ analysis of theoretical productions, the effects of such teaching and the necessary conditions to work it through.
Keywords: psychoanalysis and university; teaching of psychoanalysis; transmission of psychoanalysis
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New ways of conception and subjectivity production: on a clinical case
Luciana Oltramari Cezar
Abstract: Artificial fertilization techniques are part of modern life. However, to what subjective transformations such technological progresses take us? This paper’s purpose is to examine the fantasies about the riddle of origins setting out from a clinical case of a boy who is the outcome of a assisted reproduction pregnancy that has come for treatment. The idea that the reality experienced enters the psychic apparatus filled by the imaginary is present becoming intertwined with existent singular historical inscriptions so as to produce subjective effects; in such a way that this paper also tends to reflect upon new ways of conception, the production of subjectivity and psychic constitution.
Keywords: artificial fertilization; riddle about origins; child sexuality; generalized seduction theory; enigmatic messages; representation; sexualization; mother and father function; fantasy; child sexual theories; subjectivity
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Mirror’s diary: the analytical relationship and the primordial construction of a mind
Gina Khafif Levinzon
Abstract: More and more, in psychoanalytical work, we encounter people who are characterized by their inability to make contact with others. Their egos are fragile and they have difficulty dealing with internal and external pressures. The theme of this work approach is based on a clinical case involving a young girl presenting an extreme withdrawal behaviour that damaged her ability to establish relationships. In the analytical situation, the patient refused to interact and speak with the analyst for a long period of time. She attributed her resistance to a feeling of shame. The narcissistic configuration presented in this affective state was examined, as well as the technical handling utilized to establish a channel of closeness that favoured a more consistent link. The analytical couple created a living mirror that permitted the gradual construction of a more integrated narcissistic structure. Little by little, the patient developed and abandoned her silence, opening a door to her creativity and spontaneity.
Keywords: borderline states; shame; mirror; psychoanalytical technique.
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Researching concepts and tendencies in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
Manuel J. Pires dos Santos e Jacó Zaslavsky
Abstract: This work discusses the difficulties and possibilities of developing research in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, showing how the practical application of the qualitative methodology by analyzing the content may be very useful from the scientific perspective, in conceptual, empirical and clinical research, and, consequently, observes tendencies and provides a base for further investigation. A few current trends of conceptual qualitative investigation in psychoanalysis are mentioned, and the studies developed in the graduate program of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul on countertransference and the analytic process, recently published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis are discussed as examples of these possibilities.
Keywords: psychotherapy and psychoanalytic investigation; conceptual research; empirical research; countertransference and psychoanalytic process.
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Micro-traumas in the analytical session
Martha Maria de Moraes Ribeiro, Maria Letícia Wierman, Mario Luiz Prudente Corrêa,
Paulo de Moraes Mendonça Ribeiro, Suely de Fátima Severino Delboni, Thais Helena Thomé Marques
Abstract: Setting out from Freud’s initial conceptualization over trauma as being something which origin reclined over inter subjective relations (theory of seduction), developing into the intrapsychic concept (unconscious fantasies), and reaching the interpersonal concept again, enlarged by the microscopy of unconscious movements of the analytical pair during the session, the authors try to conceptualize what they name as “micro-traumas in the analytical session”. Micro-traumas are subtle unconscious movements that occur in the transference-countertransference relation. They descend from the real relation between both and are unable to reach their consciousness, generating the kind of splitting Bion named as “static splitting”. It is conjectured that these are maneuvers from the personality’s psychotic part, in an attempt to keep analysis in an apparent normality, supposedly productive. When originated in the analyst, the micro-trauma approaches the condition of what could be formulated as an unconscious iatrogenic. Using clinical models, the authors develop considerations on similarities and differences among micro-traumas, actings and “enactments”. Micro-traumas and micro-caesurae are differentiated. The first ones, through a well psychoanalytically trained intuition might be transformed in micro caesurae which generate alterity and development toward catastrophic and creative changes.
Keywords: micro-traumas; iatrogeny; trauma; transformations; enactment; micro-caesurae; static splitting; intersubjectivity; intuition.
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Erotism and religion: an instigative dialogue
Raquel Elisabeth Pires
Abstract: For a personal experience of profound emotional impact evoked frm Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Saint Thereza Ecstasy some ideas about the relationship between erotism and religion have been developed. The intimate connection between erotism and religion in the art during the baroque period, as well as, the lack of psychoanalytic texts showing that relationship, is emphasized. Some ideas about the relationship between psychoanalysis, religion and erotism are discussed.
Keywords: erotism; religion; ecstasy; psychoanalysis.
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Our daily perversion
Miguel Marques
Abstract: From clinical models, the author seeks mental elements which combined can give signification to what he calls “our daily perversion”. In this sense, he selects some aspects, which can offer evidences that a perverse action is taking place at any given moment, either in the analytic relation or in daily emotional experiences.
Keywords: Inexistent objects; co-optation; perverse spectrum; perverse thought.
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