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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 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]

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 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]

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]

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]

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]