Editorial  Leopold Nosek	11
	Dialogue
	Interview: Carlos Fajardo	15
	Teacher and plastic artist [Comment to the interview] Miguel Calmon du Pin e Almeida	29
	Reflections on a “session installation” [Comment to the interview] Thais Blucher	33
	Constructions
	Ending construction, endless construction Ana Maria Brias Silveira	41
	Constructions in psychoanalytic psychosomatics Admar Horn	55
	Constructions in psychoanalysis: comments Ana Maria Andrade de Azevedo	59
	Constructions in analysis: is the Freudian conception still valid? Luciane Falcão	69
	Constructions in analysis: some relevant elements for discussion from the 68th French Language Psychoanalysts Conference José Martins Canelas Neto	83
	Papers
	Parental power and fi licide: an interdisciplinar study Rute Stein Maltz, Maria Lucrécia Zavaschi, Alice Becker Lewkowicz, Alice Milman Bugin, Denise Lahude, Eneida Maria Fleck Suarez, Liliana Soibelmann, Regina Orgler Sordi, Suzana Fortes	91
	With uninhabited soul: reconsiderations on mourning and melancholy Adalberto Goulart	103
	The aff ective experience with the sensoriality Thaís Helena Thomé Marques	115
	Interchange
	“Bound in a nutshell”: thoughts on complexity, reductionism, and “infi nite space” Glen O. Gabbard	131
	Encounters and solitude of our time Silvia Corbella	149
	Book Reviews	171
	New Launchings	185
	Notes to Contributors	189

History and/in psychoanalysis? And what is the role of the historian/psychoanalyst, or of the psychoanalyst, or of the psychoanalytical pair in this construction?
[Comment to Fernando Novais’ interview]
Ruggero Levy

Abstract: the author, based on the interview given by Dr. Fernando Novais to the Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise, freely makes some comments. It is primarily centered on understanding how the question of the past history of the subject in psychoanalysis is and seen. It differentiates an initial position of the psychoanalysis of attempting to reconstruct the factual history of the subject, with a more contemporary posture of accepting that a possible history has been built as a result of a joint task of the analytical pair.
Keywords: construction in analysis; reconstruction; psychoanalysis and history.

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“Without memory there are no people, are there?”
[Comment to Fernando Novais’ interview]
Ana Maria Loffredo

Abstract: The author approaches ideas brought by Fernando Novais and some Freud’s concepts, such as “a posteriori”. He also emphasizes the relevance of the free and libertarian thought for the historian and the psychoanalyst.
Keywords: memory; anachronism; a posteriori.

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Freie Einfälle: the verbal irruption of the unknown
Paulo Cesar Sandler

Abstract: The author proposes to analyse the concept freie Einfälle (“free associations”). The method is to match the clinical experience in psychoanalysis with a description of the semantic field of the verbal formulation in the German language. Both allow to reach: 1) the paradox involved in Freud’s verbal formulation; 2) the notion of psychic determinism as a probabilistic fact (rather than causal as it is regarded more usually than not). This probabilistic ethos of the free associations determine their form in a precise, unique way (therefore, determined) which means, truthful, as an indication of the psychic fact (or truth) which generated it. Therefore, I suggest the following vectors of the verbal formulation, to be amended by those of “flow” or “transitory flux” in perpetual motion: 1) of an association which is not rational nor the overtly explicit ideas stemming from the patient (akin to the manifest content of the dreams), but of a formulation that constitutes itself in the free transit between conscious and unconscious, mediated by the contact barrier (as defined by Freud and Bion); 2) of an association between a free state of mind which may intuit the numinous realm which links patient and analyst (the analyst’s free floating attention); 3) of an association nearer to the becoming and to be in atonement with oneself, corresponding to the German romantic concept of einfuhlung. The present study may also serve as an invitation to the scholars versed in the rich German language. They are entitled to evaluate this attempt of an analyst who is a layman in the German language, but interested in it.
Key words: psychoanalysis; free associations; to become; to be at one; German romantic movement.

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Body suspension and the three dimensions of the intercorporealty
Daniel Rodrigues Lírio

Abstract: This article focus on the body suspension, which consists in the elevation of a person by means of hooks pierced on the skin. This practice is a tipical contemporary phenomenon and, facilitated by internet, has been intensely diffused over the western world. In order to comprehend it, we use a psychoanalitical aproach to emphasize the relation dynamics among the typical actors of a suspension event: the suspendee, the suspender and the audience. In order to focus the intersubjective basis of this body intervention, we use the notion of intercorporealty. Its development is inspired on tools already used to comprehend the intersubjectivity: the fusional condition mother-baby, the empathy, the voyeurism, the specular relation and the simbolic mediation.
Keywords: alterity; body; post-modernity; pain; intercorporealty.

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On rescuing the soul
Inês Zulema Sucar

Abstract:Using references from anthropology, art, and literature, complemented by brief mentions on the clinical work with adults is a way to zoom in and out to observe sexual abuse situations experienced in childhood and adolescence within the family. Known since Freud’s time as “the murder of the soul”, the theme is discussed using classical and current works of psychoanalysis. Different theoretical approaches help to understand the traumatic repercussion that occurs in the imaginative life and in the relationships of adult lives in the presence of this kind of experience.
Keywords: trauma; sexual abuse; illusion/disillusion; good enough mother.

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The metaphsychological thought, psychoanalysis matricial reference

Abstract: Different concepts as to what is theory and what is concept in Psychoanalysis take very different paths regarding the understanding the nature of the analytic process, as well as the forms and practices of its transmission. We consider the choice of the metapsychological resources relevant – narrowly imbricate with the challenges of the clinic, being undissociated from transference and the work of metaphor – as the one that most closely matches nature, in the negative, of the analytic work. What has been called empiric and conceptual researches supposes a positivity that does not match what is dealt with in an analysis.
Keywords: metapsychology; empiric research; conceptual research; negative in psychoanalysis.

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Contemporary psychoanalytic psychopathologie: helplessness clinic

Abstract: Having present the evolution of the practice since Freud’s hysterics, the author emphasizes the change observed in the current clinic, predominating patients that lack of a symbolic life as result of a setting to a stage of the development where the mental apparatus is unable to answer by itself to endogenous and exogenous stimulations, generating a helplessness experience when he cannot count on the aid of an empatic environment. Under the heading of the helplessness clinic, patients with autistic traces, the toxic and traumatic neurosis, psychosomatic diseases, traumatophylias, addictions, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, bonds of violence, promiscuity and other pathologies that differ from neurosis, psychosis and perversions according to a clinical, technical and theoretical point of view. To give account of these pathologies, it is imposed need of a new paradigm capable to extend psychoanalysis for a mind whose logic is not more of the pleasure-displeasure of a represented erogeneity, but the tension-relief of discharges, much more primitive, dismissed of subjectivity.
Keywords: trauma; anguishe; depression; helplessness; current clinic.

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The “squabble” (prise de Bec) between Beckett and Bion: the “experimental” insight in the glaringly darkness

Abstract: This paper starts with the premiss that the psychotherapeutic encounter between Wilfred Bion and Samuel Beckett created a sort of emotional laboratory rich in “experimental insights”. With the help of Film, the only film with Beckett’ script, an argument is held concerning outer sensorial vision and inner psychical vision. The subject develops in addition to the concepts of binocular and monocular visions, suggested by Bion and well illustrated in Beckett’s work. Confronting the “weakness syntax” that supports his work with the analyst’s “negative capability” which, in Bion’s opinion makes it possible to grasp the analysand’s “wild thoughts”, the paper stresses the difference between no-thing an nothing underlying the dialectics between being and non-being, existence and non-existence. As an epilogue it suggests that both authors complement themselves in the enunciation of basic existential questions: “How to think the unthinkable, how to name the unamable, how to know the unknowable?”
Keywords: insight, inner vision; outer vision; monocular vision; binocular vision; negativization; negative capability; “positive incapability”; being; un-being.

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Babel or psychoanalytic semiosphere: which the ways of development of the knowledge in the psychoanalysis?

Abstract: Initially, we describe our previous studies on the epistemological importance of some clinical and theoretical convergences which have occurred in psychoanalysis, particularly on the issues of transference and counter-transference. We then proceed to examine how the notion of semiosphere, proposed by the russian linguist Iuri Lotman, is a valuable tool for the investigation and representation of aspects of these convergences, as well as of the process through which other ideas are developed in psychoanalysis. We use two examples to illustrate our point. First, by discussing how the concept projective identification, originated in psychoanalysis, can be used to understand findings by Allan Schore in neuroscience. Second, , by examining how Susan Reid, in the opposite direction, departs from psychoanalytical observations about autistic manifestations, which she relates to information from other disciplines about the posttraumatic stress syndrome, to propose the Autistic Postraumatic Developmental Disorder (aptdd).
Keywords: conceptual research; theoretical convergences; transference/contertransference; projective identification; semiosphere.

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Pluralism in theory and research: and what now?

Abstract: For a long time there has been discussion about the pluralism of analytic theories. The author proposes that there is a second pluralism, namely the one in the analytic research field. Introductory remarks on the development of conceptual research serve as reference to highlight the two pluralisms, relating to the Green-Wallerstein debate about the common ground in psychoanalysis, and relating to considerations about the scientific status of psychoanalysis, and also about some current understandings of analytic research. Psychoanalysis as a science “between nature and culture” (in Green’s and Wallerstein’s words) would have to take both nature and culture into account, not only in its theoretical concepts, but also in research and methodology. In doing so it would be desirable to understand both pluralisms positively, as resources in the search for the best problem solutions. The author criticises the idea of an unchangeable common ground in psychoanalysis. She points to Freudian work as historical ground, understanding Freud’s image of man [Menschenbild] and his interest in knowledge [Erkenntnisinteresse] as a possible common backdrop for a constructive analytic discourse – from which a common ground would have to be worked out anew again and again. The prerequisites for such systematic “‘controversial discussions” and for a connectionist view are discussed, which is seen as a workable alternative to fundamentalism or to a resigning acceptance of an arbitrary pluralism.
keywords: commom ground in psychoanalysis; pluralism in analytical theory and research; conceptual research; controversial debates; connectionism.

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Peverse operation of mental life

Abstract: The author mentions different conceptions about perversion and mental life. English, French and American psychoanalytical ideas about perversion and false self are discussed. A clinical case is present and takes in count transference and contra-transference aspects, as well as technical dimensions of the analytical work.
Keywords: perversion; false self; transference; contra-transference; split; homosexuality.

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