RBP - Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise

Abstract: The author, based on a historical reference and fragments of the interview given by physicist Jose Goldemberg to the Revista Brasileira de Psicanalise, makes several commentaries about Freud’s pulsional theory, with an emphasis on the pulsions of seeing and knowing, concluding with an observation of the work of life preservation developed by the intervewed.
Keywords: pulsion; knowing pulsion; seeing pulsion; nuclear war; survival.

Comment to José Goldemberg’s interview
Zelig Libermann, Porto Alegre

Abstract: In the interview, Professor José Goldemberg reports many of his life experiences and his participation in important moments of the History of the country. Among such reports, the author points out professor Goldemberg’s stories about his life as a student, with the objective of shortly analyzing some psychic aspects present currently in student-mentor relations. On proposing such subject, we try to emphasize
the importance of affective relation, of bonds between mentors and students as facilitators of the introjection of identification models.
Keywords: psychoanalysis; psychic development; representation; narcissistic defenses; bonds.

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Turbulence and growth: Ismalia and Isaura meet
Gisèle de Mattos Brito, Belo Horizonte

Abstract: This article is a clinical text about an intense encounter between “madness” and “sanity” or, we might say, between the psychotic and the non-psychotic part of our personalities (Bion, 1967). Between the search to know (K) and not know (-K) as presented by Bion (1962, 1963) and extension to transformations K–>O (Bion, 1965). A variety of fragments of different moments of the analysis are presented making it possible to see how patient and analyst weave a continent to contain the analytical object. Madeness/Ismália, that is, the acting’s derived from an attempt to escape from mental pain and feelings of responsibility, as well as, the creation of a hallucinatory world gain verbal expression in the analytical relationship. On the other hand, sanity/Isaura, understood as the lucid contact with self and object is also revealed and expressed.
Keywords: madeness; sanity; psychotic part and non-psychotic; growth; turbulence; transformations in hallucinosis; to know and not know.

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Frida: Kahlo: the painting as a process of searching herself
Gina Khafif Levinzon, São Paulo

Abstract: This paper is based on the study of Frida Kahlo´s life and work, and it takes into consideration the nature of the strengths that impelled the artist to depict her emotional inner states in a touching form. The failure in her maternal supply and its consequences are discussed considering Frida’s connection with her body, her relationships and her femininity. Her self-portraits created a mirror´s repairing function, and her art showed a strong process of searching integration and contact with herself.
Keywords: Frida Kahlo; the art as a cure process; compulsion; mirror.

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The person of the analyst: the new/old uneasiness
Reflections from Jean Laplanche’s “Theory of Generalized Seduction”
José Carlos Calich, Alice Becker Lewkowicz, Carmem Emília Keidann, Heloísa
Cunha Tonetto, Magali Fischer, Regina Pereira Klarmann, Porto Alegre

Abstract: The paper proposes a reflection on the analytic situation, based on Laplanche’s thoughts about the “General Seduction Theory”. In this theory, neutrality should be re-defined considering the fundamental role of the “refusement” of the analyst, as a technical instrument to allow the work of fostering translation of the enigmatic messages. The complexity of the movements in the session is identified, as the analyst is also immersed in his own non-translated enigmatic messages that interfere with his work. A clinical material is presented illustrating the interplay between the filled-in transference and the hollow-out transference, this last opening the possibilities to reach the un-usual, un-thought, generating states of discomfort and uneasy, which at the same time favours new translations and are in the basis to unconscious expansion and growth.
Keywords: refusal; transference; analyst person; analytic situation; neutrality.

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Little Hans: discussed and experienced between past and present
Celso Gutfreind, Porto Alegre

Abstract: In this work, the author proposes to revise the discussion of Freud in his classic case of Little Hans. The idea is to review the main ideas of Freud, reflecting on what to retain in the current psychoanalytic model of care for children. After a reflective journey that sense, the conclusion is that Freud, with Little Hans, paved the way for understanding the children’s world and, discounted some technical differences, many of his ideas succeed current and consistent.
Keywords: little Hans, psychoanalysis. Infant psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis history.

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What does representation mean?
Josênia Maria Heck Munhoz, Porto Alegre

Abstract: The author aims to understand representation as a concept in Freud’s work, using the help of other authors such as: Green, Hanns, Garcia-Rosa, Laplanche & Pontalis and Valls. It is understood that representation is a complex and extremely articulated concept which unites in the core of its definition, pure Freudian metapsychology in relation to the instincts and affects. Hence, representation embodies a phenomenon of where its role is linked to the structuring of the psychic apparatus and to the conscious and unconscious mind. It covers the three psychoanalytic points of view which are: economic dynamic and topographical.
Keywords: Representation; instinct (trieb); psychic apparatus.

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Transformations in dreaming and characters in the psychoanalytic field
Antonino Ferro, Pavia

Abstract: On the basis of clinical material and technical considerations, the author attempts to demonstrate the transition from a psychoanalysis directed towards contents to a psychoanalysis interested predominantly in the development of the instruments for dreaming, feeling, and thinking. Transformation in dreaming of the patient’s communications and development of the capacity for being in unison are deemed to be of central importance to this development.
Keywords: personage; model; psychoanalytical field; transformations; transformations in dream.

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Grasping psychoanalysts’ practice in its own merits
Juan Pablo Jiménez, Santiago

Abstract: The author considers that the study of convergences and divergences in psychoanalytic clinical practice requires knowledge of what psychoanalysts really do in their practice. He outlines a phenomenology of clinical practice and of processes of validation of the interventions. He also proposes methodologies for studying the practice in its own merits.
Keywords: pluralism, clinical validation, psychoanalytic phenomenology, psychoanalytic practice.

Problems of collegial learning in psychoanalysis: narcissism and curiosity
Warren S. Poland, Washington

Abstract: Despite clinical sensitivity when listening to patients, analysts have not fared well in hearing and talking to each other with respectful open-mindedness. Underlying factors are considered with particular focus on the interplay between self-aimed forces of narcissism and outward aimed forces of curiosity. Included in examination of problems of collegial communication are limitations structurally inherent to the human mind (such as the need to abstract aspects of experience in order to focus attention plus the mind’s tendency to categorical thinking), those derived from individual psychology (such as vulnerability of self esteem), and those related to group dynamics (such as the problems attendant to new ideas and the allegiances they stir, parochialism and the development of radical schools, the competitiveness between schools). The contribution of cultural influences and the multiply determined uses of language are also highlighted. The core sense of smallness in the strangeness of the universe and in the presence of others is seen as a common thread.
Keywords: Collegial communication; curiosity; dualistic thinking; insularity; narcissism; open-minded; parochialism; problems of language; radical schools; reciprocal learning; scientific competition; strangeness of otherness.

Infinity and the body: notes for a theory of genitality
Leopold Nosek, São Paulo

Abstract: The author reviews the concept of genitality and, equating the unconscious to the infinite as understood by Levinas, attributes to psychoanalysis an ethics derived from reception of the other. Meaning is constructed under the aegis of the genital, the only sexual mode in which desire does not contain otherness.
Keywords: clinic; construction of meaning; ethics; genitality; infinite; metapsychology; trauma.

Abstract: The author revises the concept of drive and repetition compulsion and examines them from meta-psychological, clinical and institutional points of views. He stresses in these three realms the contrast between the predominance of a monotonous and compulsory repetition and renewing and creative movements that can contribute to the vitality of psychoanalysis.
Keywords: drive, repetition compulsion, contemporary psychoanalysis.

Enactment: Model to Think of the Psychoanalytical Process
Nelson José Nazaré Rocha, Campinas

Abstract: Through a brief bibliographical review, the author begins the paper describing and discussing the concept of enactment, and how he defines this and other terms.
Following the differentiation proposed by Jacobs between overt and covert enactments, the author presents a short clinical example of the former and a more complex clinical situation to illustrate the second kind of enactment.
In the latter, the author examines the importance of the concept in its clinical application, also discussing the validity of this concept as an instrument for the understanding and working through of clinical phenomena, taking into consideration its differences vis à vis the concepts of acting-out and projective identification and projective counter-identification.
The author concludes the paper, defending the use of this concept as a model – in the sense it was used by Bion: as an instrument to think, to be abandoned after being used – in order to help describe and think about the analytic situation.
Keywords: enactment; acting out; projective identification; projective counter-identification; borderline adolescent

Theory is the writing of the clinic
Odilon de Mello Franco Filho, São Paulo

Abstract: This paper discusses the place of the analyst’s writing in a dialogue with the Multiple Fields Theory, developed by Fabio Herrmann. The point of departure is the opinion of various analysts regarding the writing. The discussion is based on the aphorism theory is the writing of the clinic and it unfolds into two paths. Firstly, the terms theory, writing and clinic are articulated to the internal structure of Hermann’s theory, in order to point out the relations between the analytic method – the field rupture – and these terms. Secondly, it discusses Hermann’s search to find a place for Psychoanalysis within Science, what makes him underline the fictional aspect of the psychoanalytic theory and to propose literature as an analogue to psychoanalysis.
Keywords: writing; psychoanalysis; fiction; theory; psychoanalytic method.