RBP - Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise

Comment to the interview of Fúlvio Alexandre Scorza
Leila Tannous Guimarães, Campo Grande

Abstract: This text is a comment on the interview given by Profº Fúlvio Scorza to the Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise. Aiming at the interface of Neuroscience with psychoanalysis, the comment highlighted the relationship between neuroplasticity and memory, body/mind, combined use of medication and psychotherapy and, finally, the use of drugs (alcohol and cocaine), farther to stress, as factors may be harmful to neurons and an impediment to neurogenesis.
Keywords: neuroscience; psychoanalysis; memory; neuroplasticity.

Comment to the interview of Fúlvio Alexandre Scorza
Plinio Montagna, São Paulo
Yusaku Soussumi, São Paulo

Abstract: The authors discuss the possible cooperation and integration between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences, pointing out favorable factors and the resistances to a fruitful dialogue between them.
They show examples, extracted from the interview and other personal experiences that confirm the usefulness of the cooperation.
Keywords: Psychoanalytic process; neurosciences; neuropsychoanalysis; memory; resistance;
interdisciplinary dialogue.

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The specific characteristics of working through mourning during adolescence
Bernardo Tanis, São Paulo

Abstract: We suggest based on our clinical experience the hypothesis that the processes of working through mourning during adolescence has particular characteristics, specially the painful grief of the father's death. Identification, gender identity, sexuality and Oedipus conflict's anxiety attain an overwhelming intensity during this period of life.
This issue is both important for clinical purposes as for the methapsicological understanding of the youngster's mind.
We expand the mind space given to temporal, indemnificatory and symbolization processes and we explore its impacts on their upcoming adult life.
Keywords: Adolescence; father's death; mourning process; identification.

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The determinative mental system of envy
Walter Trinca, São Paulo

Abstract: Envy as a clinical factor originates from the intensification of hate. It is mobilized by the death pulsion turned against the envious subject itself. Hate has as its consequence the distancing of contact with the envious person and his own inner being. A situation that would lead to the emptying of the self, in case envy would not emerge in its sensorial form as a compensatory measure to this emptying process. This has to do with the sensoriality of hate directed towards what evokes the insufficiencies of the envious person having in mind removing the source of sufferance. The hate towards the beneficiary of what is desired replaces the hate of the envious person against himself. Such sensoriality aims at keeping something about the validity and kindness of the envious person. The author considers that in this way it is not necessary to alter the basic elements of the classical kleinian conception of envy.
Keywords: contemporary psychoanalysis; psychoanalytical theory; sensoriality; mental systems; envy.

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Intersubjectivity and specificity of psychoanalysis
Adalberto A. Goulart, Aracaju

Abstract: On the concept of Trieb in Freud, the author makes considerations about the importance of the maternal role and its interaction with the baby on the basic construction of the new personality. Develops the theme until the analytic relationship and discusses the importance of the presence of the total personality of the analyst in session, that included the real person, as much as the patient, interchanging and interfering on process, although the technic neutrality search.
The intersubjectivity concept is enhanced like a double phantasy in the analytic field, constructed by subjectivities meeting of both components, that should be ransom later, in their differences, enriched by the intersubjective meeting.
He emphasize the necessity of some dose of courage and daring that the analyst needs to have to use of the raw material that emerge in field intersubjective, always sustained by the solid psychoanalytic formation, by the studies and speciality by the satisfatory personal analysis. He suggests that the analytical work consists of constructing new meanings, and that, working in the intersubjective space, the analytical pair if becomes more integrated, more alive, more creative and, especially, truer.
Keywords: Trieb; maternal role; intersubjectivity; psychoanalytical dialogue; psychoanalysis.

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An approach towards world's oneiric contents and the caesura
Edival Antonio Lessnau Perrini, Curitiba

Abstract: The author presents clinical, personal statements and literature texts to think about emotional experiences linked to what Bion called, in 1977, as Caesura.
He shows that, experiencing the Caesura, parts of the oneiric contents of the mind is able to let their potential and indiscriminate form to be psychic accomplished.
He emphasizes also that "working the Caesura", a peculiarity of the psychoanalyst method, is working with paradox movement that point out to a snap and unexpected change of the mental states. And to abide them, on clinic and on everyday life, on its empty immediate meaning, and bearing them, is what can make these accomplishments possible.
Keywords: Caesura; emotional experiences; oneiric contents; states of the mind.

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The question of Psychoanalysis in Fabio Herrmann. Crisis in Crisis?
Leda Herrmann, São Paulo

Abstract: The paper deals with Fabio Herrmann's idea on the history of psychoanalysis as resistance to Psychoanalysis.
Herrmann attributes the contemporary crisis in Psychoanalysis to its reduction, after Freud, to the practice of a standard technique in the consulting room that is supported by a standard theory.
Keywords: Fabio Herrmann; Multiple Fields Theory; standard technique; high theory.

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Deep Fritz v Sigmund Freud: the fight of century
Juarez Guedes Cruz, Porto Alegre

Abstract: The author develops an examination about some challenges to psychoanalysis in present days.
There are a premise: even though the dissimilarity between the Vienna in the beginning of the XX century and the modern technological society, it is fundamental that the psychoanalyst keep himself attentive to the invariance of internal world, his unique and privileged focal point in his clinical work. This posture– characterized by preservation of the setting and by attention to the intersubjective field – is examined.
Keywords: Psychoanalysis and culture; pos-modernity; psychoanalysis and technology.

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Psychoanalysis as activity. Challenges and resistance
Ney Marinho, Rio de Janeiro
Maria Thereza de Barros França, São Paulo

Abstract: The author seeks to asnswer the question "what would be specific and/or revolutionary within psychoanalysis and the field of resistance that it would generate in the present. Part of the vertex: that of psychoanalysis as an activity and, from this angle develops his answer in three parts. The first one discuses the specificity of psychoanalytic epistemology. The second one, the radicality of psychoanalytic clinic, taking as a reference a text by Michael Brearley. The third one is dedicated to the internal resistences (from the psychoanalytic movement itself) as well as external ones (from culture). He concludes developing the epigraphs which open this article and intend to summarize it.
Keywords: psychoanalysis; activity; epistemology; lifestyle; resistence; Michael Brearley; Wittgenstein; Bion.

Abstract: The author bases himself on his most minimal personal experiences to attempt to establish the points where our compulsions seek support: small identifying marks, small experiences that shape the being and existence of each one of us. Towards this, he emphasizes the role and function of the environment in the processes that result in the ability of psychic representation.
Keywords: stop smoking; identifying marks; compulsion and environment.

The "Via Sacra" of the child's murder on the psychoanalytical process
Giovana Borges, Porto Alegre
Ignácio A. Paim Filho, Porto Alegre

Abstract: The authors propose to rethink the validity of Freud's ideas about the importance of the analyst's unconscious and, after all, his personal analysis on the psychoanalytical process. Facing this premise, they focus on the tanatic consequences of their work, when it doesn't happen on the analyst the acquisition of a "certain psychological condition in a high degree". They take as a target the symbolic happening of the child's murder. Postulate that the destination of all transference, that is perpetuated by the rejection of the analyst's feminine, will determinate the murder of the analysand autonomy. Therefore, they enforce the endless character of every analysis and the importance that every analyst doesn't live with the narcissic
injury of his desire and/or the need to go back to the couch.
Keywords: transference; rejection of the feminine; child's murder; narcissism.

The current psychoanalytic clinic: obsession, compulsion, phobia and panic
Theodor Lowenkron, Rio de Janeiro

Abstract: The paper presents the conception of compulsion and tries to approach the manifestation of obsession, compulsion, phobia and panic as diagnostic category. It indicates that psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy are effective therapeutic approaches in these diagnostic categories.
Keywords: compulsion; panic; phobia; obsession; psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Primitive conscience: a glimpse of the primordial mind
José Américo Junqueira de Mattos, Ribeirão Preto
João Carlos Braga, Curitiba

Abstract: On studying the supervisions given by Bion in 1978 in São Paulo, Brazil, one of the present authors (JAJM) identified references to a mental configuration, colloquially named by Bion as primitive conscience. Reviewing his articles and seminars from that time period, it was possible to identify this idea in different occasions. This concept, developed over Bion's last years of life (1976-1979), is part of an important addition to the model of the mind developed by him. At that time, he formulated conjectures about a primordial mind, developed before birth, which would remain unchanged and active after that. With this hypothesis, Bion drew our attention to the earliest stages of the development of the mind, to somatic imprintings associated with organs (thalamus and adrenal) that are ready to act early in the body, before the cerebral cortex is prepared for records with mental potentiality.
In this context, Bion conjectured that very primitive feelings of guilt, capable of triggering cruel sanctions to a fatal point, would give base to a primitive conscience. This conscience does not consider experience to indicate choices, but rather, imposes rules. This way, it vetoes emotional experiences potentially capable of leading to mental growth. Terms such as nameless dread and sub-thalamic fear were tentatively used by Bion in different moments to approach this condition.
Keywords: conscience; superego; archaic superego; primordial mind; Bion

Abstract: It seems to us that the last part of Bion's work is orientated towards mystical concerns. But it is not a return to the past or a regression. These works, on the contrary, are on the same level of Freud's most instigating and disconcerting works, like "The Future of an Illusion" and "Moses the Man". This essential need of man, that is, the need to give meaning to his world will be submitted by Bion to psychoanalysis's
scrutiny.
Keywords: Psychoanalysis; Bion; mystic; knowledge; trauma.

Regarding the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis in the 21st century
Marilia Aisenstein, Paris

Abstract: In order to support the idea that psychoanalysis currently is part of the process of civilization, the author examines the notion of therapeutic action within psychoanalysis in light of important Freudian work. She also discusses the contributions of some thinkers, Freud followers such as Klein, Bion, Green, Lacan and their influence. she believes that psychoanalysis is a unique method with the means to resist the attacks agains the thought that we must face currently.
Keywords: pulsion; death pulsion; libido; analytical process; Kulturarbeiten; civilization; thought process; interpretive work transference; perlaboration.