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From an evolutionary point of view, same-sex sexual interactions have long been considered a major paradox. This is because they have persisted throughout generations despite, presumably, not offering direct reproductive benefits and, apparently, reducing individual fitness. Nonetheless, same-sex sexual interactions are common in many animal species. This paper reviews some functional hypotheses that seek to solve this evolutionary puzzle: some consider it adaptative, meaning that these behaviors would bring benefits to individuals; others see it as a neutral by-product of other advantageous characteristics. A third branch understand same-sex sexual interactions to be non-adaptative and potentially deleterious to individuals. Finally, this paper discusses a revolutionary hypothesis that, unprecedently, questions whether sexual interactions involving exclusively individuals of the opposite sex are in fact the basal state of sexual behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2013, Brazil saw the emergence of several political groups identified with right-wing politics and united against the left and the Worker's Party consecutive administration. This paper investigates the characteristics of this phenomenon in northeastern Brazil to understand how right-wing militancy discursively organizes its identity and that of groups it chooses as antagonists. Based on discourse analysis, the study analyzes transcripts of interviews conducted with nine members of this militancy. Categories such as conservative, liberal and libertarian were used by the interviewees as self-identifying positions. How they describe these categories reveals the plurality of the political right, highlighting its complexity and contradictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gambling may be a leisure activity, but overdoing it can lead to adverse consequences such as Gambling Disorder. Despite the serious damage caused by the disorder, both Gambling Disorder and its treatment strategies are little known in Brazil. This study investigates Gambling Disorder and its treatment, emphasizing the contributions of the psychodynamic approach. The paper presents the main psychodynamic hypotheses in the literature and comments on the psychodynamic psychotherapy carried out in facilities treating pathological gamblers in São Paulo, such as the Pathological Gambling Outpatient Program (PRO-AMJO) of the Psychiatric Institute of Hospital das Clínicas (IPq HC-FMUSP). Finally, some examples of pathological gambler profiles are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on recent discussions about the definition of behavior and the selection by consequences approach conducted by Brazilian researchers, this essay discusses the need for greater participation of the contributions from experimental behavior analysis this debate and more interaction of the field with other systems in Psychology. The paper criticizes its isolation with respect to knowledge production in other areas and the adoption of authority figures from which novelties in the field can be evaluated. Hence, Skinner's model of selection by consequences must be analyzed in context for a clear understanding of its most important contributions to Psychology. The essay argues that discussions on the operant-responder distinction and about metacontingencies are examples of conceptual revision based on data and articulation between areas of research with different epistemologies and methodologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a contribution to psychoanalytic historiography by revisiting Freud's founding texts, The history of the psychoanalytic movement, published in 1914, searching in it for the first clues on how to operate at the interface between psychoanalysis and history. From this inaugural text, the paper examines some psychoanalysts and historians who investigated the link between psychoanalysis and history, to find convergences and divergences on the practice of the psychoanalytic historian. Lastly, it proposes three axis for a psychoanalytic historiography, articulated around the concepts of afterwardsness, das Ding and historical truth. This historiographic reflection seeks to show different ways of thinking the history of the psychoanalytic movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contributes to the investigation of fear as a driver of collaboration--transformed into consent--in neoliberalism. To do so, it first resumes some of Christophe Dejours'ideas, highlighting the role of work and fear in the neoliberal machine. Since these ideias disregard some questions about the nature of collective engagement, the text turns to Freud's analysis of mass psychology in search for answers. Finally, after showing the limits of such analysis, excessively focused on the figure of the Father (or the leader), it draws on Jacques Lacan to elaborate a new mass psychology more adequate to current society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the narrative of a woman experiencing domestic violence and the imbrications between her life history, gender impositions, and the construction of her identity. Hence, a qualitative research based on the triangulation of methodological sources by means of narrative interviews, daily observations, and document protocols was carried out. The results considered the personal, family and relational elements related to the construction of scenarios in which the perpetration of gender-based violence may have been corroborated in the production of characters and resistance over time. Such discussions contribute to advance the understanding of violence against women in Brazil, tensioning a critical analysis that puts into question the sociopolitical aspects that reinforce the hegemonic exercise of a patriarchal culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The years 2015 and 2016 were politically marked by student occupation movements throughout Brazil, which focused on the defense of public education and stood out due to their self-organization. This paper investigates the production processes of power to act and ethical-political health that took place during the 2015-2016 student occupations in São Paulo. Data was collected by means of interviews, focus groups and participant observations with students from four municipalities: São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Catanduva and Barretos. The corpus analysis highlights that although the students were subjected to processes of decreased power to act and ethical-political suffering during the occupations, they fought for collective ideals, shared social identities, humor, play activities, among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts a theoretical rapprochement between Milton Erickson's (1901-1980) and Charles Peirce's (1839-1914) thought, focusing on the concepts of singularity and fallibilism to point out their similarities, the role they play on their works, how they relate to each other, and their theoretical implications regarding hypnosis. First, the text briefly describes both authors' historical background and its influence over their early conceptions. Then, it discusses how fallibilism, present in the concept of semiosis, considers the singularity of existing phenomena and enables synechism, as well as the processes of constant evolution through change of habits. This study develops Erickson's observation about the subject as a representative sign of life experiences and relates, initially, the theoretical implications of mind-as-semiosis concerning the constitutive process of phenomena accessible in trance experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Image, cinema and psychology - this article weaves a dialogue between these three extensive and complex topics to develop theoretical-conceptual approaches between art and science. From the cinematic art, some of its technical resources and concepts developed by this language, the article seeks to provide a bridge between the field of aesthetics and reflections on the process of subjectivation. The paper finds grounds on Deleuze's philosophy of image and time and Benjamin's understanding of the image as a substance shapes thought and time as an eternal instant that never ceases to update itself. Both theories are approached in a dialogical way to establish intersections with other cinema and cultural thinkers, as well as with some film works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This integrative review analyzed studies about depression among people imprisoned in the prison system. Bibliographic search was conducted on the PePSIC, PsycINFO, SciELO and Web of Science databases. Papers were selected following the PRISMA recommendations, and then extracted using the StArt software. The search strategy used the terms "inmate," "prison," "prisoner," "penitentiary" and "depression," The final sample included 10 primary studies that met the inclusion criteria and answered the research question. All selected articles indicated the occurrence of depression, assessed by the Beck Depression Inventory. Finally, early identification of depressive symptoms can minimize physical and mental harm in the incarcerated population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an excerpt from original research aiming at recognizing territories from their narratives. The territory clinic method, based on drifting, listening and writing, to map, was tried out by the main author under the co-author's advisement. Sentences and expressions written on walls, here called "grapixos," were read as territory narratives based on a construed process called "text mixing." This paper seeks to present the mixing proposal as a way to read/listen to narratives of territorial spaces and to analyze their problems, potentialities, and results. Its main result shows that mixing grapixos with the researcher's "escrevivência" an appropriate method to reveal discursive layers of the territory concealed or silenced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout his work, Sándor Ferenczi concerns himself with the dimension of the body in the psychoanalytic experience, framing it predominantly from the point of view of expression. This paper presents a reading, based on his theory, on the constitution of multiple modes of expression. To do so, we propose six ideas organized in two parallel and complementary series: the first involves the notions of omnipotence, catastrophe, and regression; the second groups the ideas of condition, adaptation, and complexification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the psychoanalysis subjects taught in psychology programs in the state of Acre by the syllabus and bibliographies of the corresponding disciplines, available on the curricular pedagogical projects of the four existing programs. A descriptive and qualitative study was conducted based on documentary sources investigated by content analysis. The results indicated syllabuses that emphasize Freudian teachings and a preference for national publications. Lack of classes on psychoanalytic research and clinic beyond the classic model stands out amidst the identified gaps, calling for changes that may subsidize investigations and practices in the Amazon context, fomenting the development of this approach aiming at the formative journey that the Freudian discipline requires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes healthcare actions in Primary Health Care, questioning the predominance of offer and demand in healthcare model. In response, it marks the relevance of psychoanalysis in care that surpasses the citizen to be rightfully served, indicating the right to care for the subject in their singularity. Added to this perspective are the benefits of work psychology, in which the conquest and strengthening of the health of the workers themselves are necessary for the sustainability of care beyond the application of normative protocols. Thus, the inclusion of psychoanalysis and work psychology adds to the exercise of health care, broadening the perspectives of psychologists involved in primary healthcare beyond the level of a traditional offer of healthcare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes healthcare actions in Primary Health Care, questioning the predominance of offer and demand in healthcare model. In response, it marks the relevance of psychoanalysis in care that surpasses the citizen to be rightfully served, indicating the right to care for the subject in their singularity. Added to this perspective are the benefits of work psychology, in which the conquest and strengthening of the health of the workers themselves are necessary for the sustainability of care beyond the application of normative protocols. Thus, the inclusion of psychoanalysis and work psychology adds to the exercise of health care, broadening the perspectives of psychologists involved in primary healthcare beyond the level of a traditional offer of healthcare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the child's relationship with knowledge. Clinical practice and analytical research with children with difficulties to access school knowledge revealed the unconscious dynamics in which knowledge occupies a place in the family symptom. A theoretical discussion will be presented considering that access to knowledge bears a structural dimension of impediment, which is the impossibility of knowing in the face of castration. Therefore, we will investigate two paths to discuss what prevents access to knowledge. The first addresses the relationship between demand and desire and how it affects children. The second discusses the relationship between knowledge and truth, exploring the relationships and boundaries between both, adding to this discussion a third essential term: jouissance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of micropolitics in Deleuze and Guattari A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia exploring possibilities for its use. The paper focuses on chapter 9 of the book, analyzed in its three sections, and seek tofollow the construction of concept and its difficulties, particularly the dualism that accompanies it. In this analysis we dialogue both with critical texts and texts associated with Deleuze and Guattari's ideas, presenting elements for understanding the philosophical project that sustains deleuzoguattarian discussion. It is emphasized, as a start point, that micro and macro politics differ from each other, but are inseparable. On this basis we suggest a reading of these concepts in the field of public policy, focusing on their articulation rather than overestimating micropolitics. The spread of certain "neo-moralist" use of these concepts in much of the literature is recognized, which is criticized by several authors. We value heuristic fertility of the concepts given the current depletion of analysis that exclusively focus on macropolicy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the academic production on the theme of race and theme developed at the Institute of Psychology at USP (IPUSP). Therefore, we analised theses and dissertations produced at IPUSP between 1970 and 2012 that made use of these categories to understand subjective, social, and political phenomena. Among other aspects, we found that the studies analyzed are divided mainly into three main areas, namely: denouncing racism, ways of subjectivation of racism, and strategies to overcome it. However, it is arguable that there are few studies that deal systematically with the deconstruction of racism, as well as with methodologies and techniques through which psychologists could contribute for the anti-racist struggle in Brazilian society. So to speak, there is still a gap in knowledge of psychology and race relations that should be looked deeper into by psychologists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the historical production of the old age considering the dispositif of age. A genealogical tracking is outlined in order to point out some lines that have configured statements about the old age, especially in biopolitical contexts. It is emphasized how the discourses of truth about the old age do produce regimes of subjectification and constitute subjects from normalizing and generalizing references. Starting from the deconstructing of discourses regarding the old age, it is indicated the possibility of considering the experiences of the old age aside from the forms of tutelage and from the forms of calculated management of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports the discussion of an ongoing study on the meaning of risk practices by young people in the transition to adulthood and preliminary results of a pilot study using a questionnaire about trial by ordeal function. Based on the return to the concept of trial by ordeal conducts, we seek to deepen the analysis of risk practices involving young Brazilians as symptoms of a malaise that they experience in the transition to adulthood. We conducted a pilot experiment with the application of a questionnaire that evaluates the trial by ordeal function. The initial sample included 82 university students of both sexes. The preliminary results were promising in the comparison of the four factors by sex of subjects and in correlation with age. To advance this research perspective, contributions should be made to the thorough understanding of these practices as well as to the development of preventive and protective actions for young people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to demonstrate that, on the first part of Jacques Lacan's teaching, the appropriation of the desire as lack-of-being represents the aim of a psychoanalytical treatment. Referring to his very first texts and seminars, we will see that the lack of an immanent knowledge, capable of designating the object compatible with its necessities, which imposes to desire its negativity, symptomatically expressed on the form of the "che vuoi?", with which the subject intends to mend the Other's inconsistence. As proposes the French psychoanalyst, an experience with the psychoanalysis taken to its limits should produce the subject appropriation of the desire as pure lack-of-being, because of which it would liquidate its addressing to the Other as ultimate foundation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a theoretical investigation of the fundamentals and principles of classical phenomenology as a methodological approach for the study of cultural phenomena. This research is inscribed in the realm of qualitative research in psychology, therefore in the field of psychology of culture. However, in considering the general area of phenomenological studies in psychology, regular criticism of classical phenomenology is observed, questioning some methodological assumptions adopted by Husserl, referring primarily to the works published during his lifetime. Based on contemporary authors dedicated to the study of Husserl's later works and unpublished manuscripts, the debate around these criticisms is updated to innovate reflections on the empirical application of his phenomenology. As conclusion, some equivalences between phenomenological archeology of culture and genetic phenomenology confers the first methodological guidelines for the study of cultural phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to expose and analyze the first of the three conceptual foundations relating to the logotherapy of Viktor Frankl: the issue of human freedom. The argumentative effort is initiated by the discussion regarding the meaning of the "spirit" category as an anthropological concept and its intrinsic relation to the theme of human freedom. Secondly, it is discussed how this conception of freedom relates to what Frankl conceived as the three basic complexes of determination to which man is subjected under the form of biological, psychological and sociological "destinies". The affirmative argument of spiritual freedom in the context of each of these areas is analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops the idea that the experience of the Beautiful necessarily implies the dimension of pain, out of the works of Freud and Nietzsche. In the first author we investigate the pain of anticipated mourning related to the transience of beauty, the importance of the concept of sublimation and the analysis of Freud's disturbing experience before the statue of Moses by Michelangelo. In the second author, we develop the main ideas of the book The Birth of Tragedy in order to demonstrate how art has the power to transform emptiness in vitality, as the sublime displaces the nausea and horror of existence into livable representations. The tragic assumes that the aesthetics underlies the disharmonious, the ugly and the dissonant, being thus an aesthetic path in which the beautiful necessarily includes the dimensions of pain and horror. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we have chosen to analyze the methodological aspects and some interpretations, divulged by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, proceeding from indicators obtained on two topics, surveyed by that institute. Our objective, therefore, was to evaluate methodologies and definitions employed by the 2010 Census in data collection about stepfamilies, as well as the methodological option and meanings used for seizure of bullying in the PeNSE research, 2009. Since the results of the investigations undertaken by the Institute are used to plot the course of public policies in Brazil, we consider the procedures employed should be in line with current theoretical discussions on the respective themes, which has not been evidenced in our analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to demonstrate theoretical and ethics reasons for the central importance of the concept of transference in psychoanalytic clinic. Theoretical: if the transference is, in Freud's words and in the words of psychoanalysts on recent researches, the condition of analysis, the supposition is that the patient could be conceived by the analyst as the one who has an unconscious functioning, resistances, and elaboration, conflicts and repressions and so on, depending on the psychoanalysis that one does. Ethics: although the concept was developed based on clinical treatment of hysteric cases, it had been reinforced, at 1910 decade, in the context of texts with directions to professional behavior at their daily work. Such analysis was abled by the terms of a Pragmatic Discourse Analysis, by Maingueneau (discourse as speech act, scenography and discourse genre), as a part of a general method, the Institutional Analysis of Discourse [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the cognitive and phenomenological nature of consciousness, starting with the phenomenal conditions and concluding by its cognitive dispositional activities. The goal is to point out the limits and potentials of the phenomenological method. Thus, we examine the concepts of flow of experience, intentional flow model, and accuracy of self-evidence to specify the problem of method. It is argued that the reflexive activity is limited, not being able to cover the whole floating of meanings and experiences in its margins in the flow. It deals with the limits paying attention to two reflexive movements: 1) the progressive leading to timely and exhaustive description of static elements of experience, and 2) t he regressive exploring the origins, expectations, and potential failures of the intentional activity. We conclude that the phenomenological method, despite its limitations, is a valuable resource to guide the researcher in how to think the thought itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a remarkable social group within the so called "new middle class" whose interests seek to perpetuate the traditional family and are against homosexual relationships and gay marriage. They are the evangelicals of the prosperity theology. The author of this paper shows that moral militant conservatism, on the one hand, and the adherence to modern and postmodern values of capitalist consumerism culture through prosperity theology, on the other, are not contradictory or necessary out of rhythm in the modernization process of this group. In fact, both of them are the two sides of a single process of the particular affirmation of human dignity of this group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Issues related to the education and work of psychologists within public institutions are discussed in this paper by a methodological frame based on Pichon-Rivière's Social Psychology and René Kaës' Transitional Psychoanalysis which focus the dimension of the intersubjective relationships (subject - group - institution), conscious and unconscious, for the approaching of the complexity of the institutional field. The concepts of bond and institution are defined and discussed in order to understand their relationships and determinations in the psychic processes of groups and of institutions, in the establishment of unconscious alliances, in the distribution of power (places and roles), in the rigidities effects, stoppage, crisis and rupture. This discussion gives importance to the research and proposes a methodological frame (institutional analysis of the bond) centered in the group and bond concepts to the psychologist's education and work in the public institutions (researcher psychologist) as a perspective to overcome stereotypies, to avoid ideological captures and establish pacts, which could interfere in the accomplishment of the institutional work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we analyze the theoretical work of Renaud Barbaras, departing from his proposal to highlight and develop the potential of Husserl's theory of perception, based on the doctrine of perceptive donation according to profiles. We mainly focused on his work entitled Desire and distance: introduction to a phenomenology of perception. We underline the description, operated by the author, about the vital movement as desire and the characterization of the subject of the perception as living. In this condition, the formulation about the priority of a dimension emerges, qualified by Barbaras as pulsion towards the objectifying dimension of classical epistemology in the subject-object relation. We indicate that, according to the author, these rearrangements entail the need to consider the body, perception and movement based on the category of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes a stage of Lacan's work as a researcher, concerning methodological issues in the move from the graph of desire to formalization of the mathema of four discourses. In the graph, the line-shaped hook cutting the two horizontal lines configured the effect of discourse in three stages, which proved to be equivalent to three clinical structures. With the four discourses, Lacan establishes a framework of four basic positions on which occurs a turn of four elements. The mathema of four discourses reminds us of the operations of the group structure of Klein. However, two rules restrict the interchangeability: the movement of one quarter of rotation of the elements only in a sense; secondly, in the four basic positions, there is disjunction between the positions of know (savoir) and truth. We can then conclude that the four discourses consist of a partial appropriation of the structure of the Klein group in order to demarcate the difference between psychoanalysis and scientific discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the relationship of transference between the analyst and theories, examining its narcissistic, non-narcissistic and oedipal aspects, as proposed by Caper (1999). The narcissistic aspects of transference refer to the analyst's ability to project his internal objects on the theory; the non-narcissistic aspects refer to his ability to perceive the theory as an object that is independent from his projections; the oedipal aspects refer to the analyst's ability to project his internal objects on the theory and to perceive it as something apart from oneself, maintaining the paradox. To view the theory as separate from oneself is to accept that it establishes relationships with other objects, from which the analyst is excluded; this acceptance, by its turn, allows the analyst to establish relationships with new objects, from which the theory is excluded. The necessary emotional distance between analyst and theory is thus given by the analyst's living connection to his patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on her experience as a collaborator psychoanalyst in two Reproduction Services, the author in this paper distinguishes three different orders of demands from physicians to psychoanalysts in relation to their activities in the context of treatments of human infertility: 1) approach of the unconscious causation of infertilities without detected organic causes; 2) aid in the construction of parenthood in cases where it is necessary the use of donors of semen, eggs or embryos or even replacement wombs; 3) help to the medical staff in making decisions in face of complex situations from a bioethical point of view, i.e., concerning demands involving the assembly of family arrangements that contradict what is socially accepted or naturally feasible. Each of these orders of demands includes a trap for the psychoanalyst. The approach of these traps is, along with the explanation of demand orders referred above, the purpose of the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a discussion regarding the practice of self-mutilation, highlighting the stories of young women (between 15 and 21 years old) attending a Mental Health Center. Such attitudes are the act of causing wounds in their own bodies, such as cuts, scratches, burns or perforations, in a conscious way - but, in these actions, there is no desire of suicide, although it is common to notice suicidal ideations in these patients' speeches. The reports about this behavior are shown by fragments of speeches, registered after psychological treatment, which delineate the description of feelings externalized in a therapeutic setting. The questions are discussed from psychoanalytical conceptions about jouissance and masochism, emphasizing propositions by Freud and Lacan, focusing the following issue: what is the function of self-caused pain - and self-injured body scars - for the psychic dynamics of the patients with self-mutilation history? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to approach ferenczi's contributions about trauma to emphasize the diversity of the psychism, which is formed by represented psychic traits and also by traumatic brands that go beyond the field of representation. It is therefore proposed that the structural and deconstructive aspects of trauma are understood not only as predicates of different types of trauma, but also as movements inherent to the psychic constitution. Thus, the psychoanalytic clinics must extrapolate a model of psychism to contemplate all the subjective productions that take place in another representation scene, among them sensitive dimension of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses when and why certain body signs may be considered as a statement of the intimate relation between the body of a homeless person living in Paris and the universe in which he lives. For this purpose, it shows why embodiment and self-awareness are difficult to manage from the point of view of the research subjects. Indeed, marked by the close relationship with the precarious conditions of existence, the corporal hexis of the studied people becomes the very source of both "social contempt" and negative self-esteem. Finally, this paper outlines some possible ways of "resilience" and social integration on the case of the studied homeless people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]