Nothing is insignificant, nothing is worthless
Abstract: Paulo Nogueira Neto’s interview is stimulating but disquieting. It caused us to reflect on our work and find that it has many aspects in common with his. We identify with Paulo’s concerns and with his action; he is in the macrocosm and we are in the microcosm, but perhaps we could do a little more. What if we could multiply our action and reach more people? How could we do that?
Keywords: ecology; education; technique; politics; unsteady attention; neutrality; integration; macrocosm; microcosm.
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The psychoanalyst and (human) nature
Abstract: Paulo Nogueira-Neto’s interview has aroused in the author some connections: nature as a source of figurations to contain human experience; man’s arrogance in creating an illusion of power and control over nature; preservation/devastation within the framework of mental functioning, diversity and simultaneity of factors leading to a resultant, which are present in studies of the environment and also on the human mind and human relations.
Keywords: containment; representation; mental preservation/devastation; arrogance; simultaneity/linearity.
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Ethical responsibility in the transmission of psychoanalysis
Abstract: The author reflects on the transmission of psychoanalysis by focusing on the training analysis issue. He proposes that the personal analysis of the future analyst be called training analysis, or simply personal analysis of the candidate, as stated in the IPA statutes. The ordering principle in the article is the thesis that there is an invariable in all education models, which is the concern about the quality of the analysis of the future analyst. He stresses the institutions’ ethical responsibility in training qualified analysts – they must especially grant them access to professionals believed to be able to provide consistent analytical processes, or evaluate whether the candidates have already had such training. The experience of personal analysis is understood as the main pillar in the construction of the psychoanalytical identity.
Keywords: training analysis; psychoanalytic training; transmission of psychoanalysis.
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Contemporary psychoanalysis focusing male anorexia
Abstract: Male anorexia is a good example of contemporary pathology, and it allows us to illustrate the uncertainties facing the analyst who treat such patients. Basically, the investigation concentrates on the question: where does the analyst stand? What is his or her basic methodology? What is his or her technique? What are the pre-requisites to put oneself in the place of an analyst? Our purpose here is to formalize the theoretical viewpoint which substantiates the approach of cases seen as narcissistic pathology.
Keywords: contemporary psychoanalysis; narcissistic pathologies; eating disorders; anorexia; male anorexia; psychoanalytical methodology.
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The tortuous path of the body in psychoanalysis
Abstract: The paper is about the status of the body in psychoanalysis, starting with the concept of actual neurosis and trying to assess the reasons as to why Freud ignored it. Next, based on the ideas of the post-Freudian authors connected to the French school of psychosomatics, connections are proposed between actual neurosis and the Freudian concepts of trauma and death instinct. Lastly, the clinical progress of this undertaking is assessed. The idea put forward is that in psychoanalysis the body means essentially a “remainder”, and that this “remainder” is at the same time the remainder of the theory – which was abandoned, at a specific moment, as a psychoanalytic object – as well as the “remainder” of the psychic subject in his ontogenesis, i.e., his inherited genetic patrimony, which does not quite achieve the constitution of a psychic subject based on language (and therefore characterized by symbolization) and which functions in accordance with the phylogenetic schemes that have not yet been categorized. This denotes a resumption of the distinction between somatic body and erogenous body characterized by the action of support (Anlehnung), or of libidinal subversion, as coined by C. Dejours.
Keywords: body; actual neurosis; psychosomatics.
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The problem of false self in borderline patients: revisiting Winnicott
Abstracts: This essay articulates Winnicott’s theory of the split false self to the author’s clinical experience implicating borderline patients. This encounter generates a theoretical proposition of two kinds of borderline patients: the schizoid personality and the “as if” personality. The author starts from the description of the symptomatology of these pathological diseases and, then, proposes different etiologies for them, and also describes their singularity in the modalities of transference they produce in psychoanalytical work.
Keywords: borderline; schizoid; “as if”; etiology; modality of transference.
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Primitive love, true love
Abstract: Inspired on Bion’s ideas regarding the being – the ultimate reality, as something which is not a mental phenomenon and which Bion represents in written form by the symbol O –,the author proposes that in the beginning of life human beings are love, and along their vital cycle, they may develop the capacity of loving. She reflects on that capacity, as well on those about depending and losing, observing two basic ways of loving, calling them primitive and true ways of loving, respectively. She presents the theme discussing both ways and the capacity of loving in its origins, using the theoretical conceptions of Bion, Meltzer e Winnicott. The theme is illustrated by the films Sylvia, by Christine Jeffs, and The Sea Inside, by Alejandro Amenábar. Finally, the author establishes a parallel with the analytical work, especially by the end of it, when analyst and patient need to elaborate the closure of the real encounters, and she ends up quoting a dialogue of love between Rosemary and P.A., characters created by Bion in A Memoir of the Future 2: The Past Presented.
Keywords: ways of loving; primitive love; true love; loving capacity; analytical process.
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Aesthetic experience: in the analysis room and in the cinema
Abstract: The aim of this work is to examine the parallel between Bion – a psychoanalyst who proposes a theory of thinking – and Aleksander Sokúrov – the “painter-filmmaker” who introduces a cinema of observation based on the semantics of images. The intended approximation takes place in the approach mode of Bion’s mental world and that of the images in Sorúkov. As a result, the emotional experience of Sorúkov’s canvas-images’ viewer will be highlighted, as well as that of the analyst’s immersed in the contact with the patient. The meeting point of this approach is the aesthetic experience, be it the one undergone by the viewer of the cinematographic images, or the one that occurs in the encounter between the analyst and the patient.
Keywords: negative capability; aesthetic experience; cinematographic images; encounter between analyst and patient.
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Contemporary relational psychoanalysis: a new way of working on psychoanalysis
Abstract: The author presents a small historical summary on the self psychology psychoanalysis of Heinz Kohut and the appearance of the correlational conception of Stephan Mitchell and Jay Greenberg in the North-American psychoanalysis of the 80 years, which, along with the intersubjectivist conceptions, specially those of Robert Storolow and his collaborators, put them on another conceptual level, creating a new paradigm. This study also presents several theoretical streams developed in this new correlationality concept and tries to establish similarities and divergences among than, with special emphasis on the psychoanalytical hearing differences, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of each one of them.
Keywords: relationality; contextualism; subjectivity.
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Repetition compulsion and the pleasure principle
Abstract: The author tries to demonstrate that compulsion to repetition can also be found in material that is distant from acting-out. He highlights, in a clinical example, the hallucinatory quality of remembrance as an effect of denial and not of repression. The concepts of bonding and separation, related to the principle of pleasure-displeasure, are complemented, emphasizing the importance of the loss of meaning of the object’s content, with or without an acting-out.
Keywords: compulsion to repetition; denial; bonding; separation; loss of meaning.
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“Role reversal” and the framework of curative factors
Abstract: Within a historical-clinical framework, in which the often conflicting binomial acting cure/talking cure is underlined, the author focuses on “role-reversal”: a primitive inter-intrapsychic process, at the forefront in our practice, but not adequately theorized in our literature. The phenomenon of “role-reversal” is clinically presented and discussed in its two main aspects (the unconscious identification with the parents and with their psychic culture, and, therefore, the concomitant dissociation of the infant part of the self) through the presentation of analytical material regarding a schizoid-deprived patient. Furthermore, the author considers some of the reasons why analysts didn’t explore this particular form of repetition, which is regularly re-enacted in the transference-countertransference dynamics in the analysis of patients who have experienced in their past a cumulative trauma, and the principal curative factors in the treatment of this kind of patients.
Keywords: role-reversal; transference-countertransference dynamics; schizoid-deprived patients; curative factors; acting cure-talking cure.
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