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This paper aims to address the crack consumption in children and adolescents on the street from the theoretical framework of psychoanalysis. It was delimited as children and adolescents living on the street, who, with or without family ties, living most of his time on the street without the supervision of an adult who is responsible for it. Were isolated problems arising from the situation of street life - malnutrition, child labor, sexual violence, drug abuse - and the changes characteristic of the passage from childhood to adolescence, which consolidate access to adulthood. It was determined along the theoretical arguments and empirical data that the onset of drug use, especially crack cocaine, in the passage from childhood to adolescence, is through the process ofsocial devaluation, associated with the place of phallic loss furthermore, a place of human waste (outcasted, like garbage), which settles in the poorest population, which is finally transmitted to the child. From these considerations, defended the hypothesis that the abuse of crack is directly associated with absence of subjective resources - promoted by the low operability of the paternal function - to cope with the changes typical of this stage of the subjectivity development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to address our human ways of being (subjectivity) in the interface between Literature and Psychoanalysis. To support this option, two texts of Sigmund Freud were chosen because they specifically address the subject of literary creation: the essay that was translated as Creative writers and daydreaming, of 1907 and The Uncanny, of 1919. The interface with the Literature is located on some parts of the work of Fernando Pessoa, specifically those of his semi-heteronomous Bernardo Soares, in the Livro do Desassossego (2006 edition) and, also, in his poem entitled Autopsicografia, of 1931. The proposal is to present some concepts of Freud and Pessoa at the points where they approach the subject of the constitution of subjectivity, especially regarding the changeability of one another: a proposal to transform the other into himself- a transformation into a poet - a theme underlying both the Freudian texts and the Pessoa writings. Here is the bases that links both Psychoanalysis and Literature, selected fields to dialogue in this text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the course of this paper, we pursue to highlight some key aspects in the work of Freud as well as in Lacan 's teaching about fetishism and perversion. These classics, accompanied by clinical details, lead us to hypothesize that the fetish represents a sort of a mother's addressing towards her son, to the extent that it is a significant part of her eroticized body that falls onto his imaginary, an insignia of the object of the mother's desire that would be fixed from the previous generation. This analysis is approached within Lacan's the elaborations of the cycle of Albertine's classic "In Search of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TFundamental psychopathology places a question about the subject who suffers and not about the observable functional changes, such as those that affect the sensory-perceptual function. In this approach, the psychoanalytic clinic takes place considering the way the subject tells and elaborates his experience, so that a sudden feeling of strangeness or desrealization can lead to a subjective enrichment. This paper compares two situations of perplexity. The first series of scenes refers to Freud's text "A disturbance of memory on the Acropolis", in which an individual transforms a perplexity situation into a knowledge about himself. The second situation refers to scenes of the character Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's text "A portrait of the artist as a young man", who, in one episode, lives his feelings towards himself and others as uncanny and, later, takes the uncanny feelings as a method to work the language. Can one feel himself uncanny in relation to his own language, in the sense of having uncanny feelings towards oneself or towards the own language? In this case, the uncanny feeling becomes a method of poetic creation: one can play with the own language by disassembling and reassembling the words to discover new strangeness. The analysis of these two situations leads to the distinction between the writing fiction of the case by psychoanalysis and the writing fiction of characters in literature, by the author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose a refection on contemporary practices in mental health in Brazil. The discussion is based on a study organized as part of a curricular internship in psychology devel-oped at a Psychosocial Attention Center (CAPS). The Center is responsible for the assistance of adult patients with severe mental suffering. This article begins with a short panorama of CAPS since its instauration. We, then, present our experience in of these centers in order to describe the vicissitudes of psychology clinic and the discussions elicited by them. This experience, in turn, has allowed a critical perspective in relation to work in mental health, especially as regards to unreflect aspects that become habitual by repetition. This critical perspective highlights nodal points to consider in the discussion of Brazilian Psychiatric Reform and the insertion of the psy-chologist, such as: the not yet overcome dichotomy between clinic and politics that promote dis-connected interventions; psychologists' lack of theoretical and technical resources when facing severe and persistent suffering - which reproduces a clinical model that must be overcome; the bureaucracy that prevents or hinders new solutions, as well as an unsuspected employment of the asylum paradigm in services that were created to substitute the hospital-centered assistance model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes as its object the effects of first fifteen weeks of psychoanalytic treatment guided by the so-called Second clinic of Jacques Lacan generated in the lives of degenerative diseases bearers that had their status confirmed at the Center for Studies of the Human Genome, CEGH -- USP. It rests therefore; over the possibility of the analyst make a difference on the mode of enjoyment of a person, permitting him to be able to experience new ways of joy, disconnected from the masochistic pleasure. It seeks to answer the following question: what changes arise when the analyst is successful in the operation to separate the subject of the signifier to which he was alienated to? In order to answer our question, seven fragments of clinical cases, chosen from a corpus composed of 51 cases, partially recorded on video and in written reports were analyzed. It was possible to conclude that the main effects obtained were the following ones: 1) A change in the interpretation that the patient makes for the own disease; 2) The convocation of the uniqueness of the one who receives an unusual response for the banality of the way he sees his own life; 3) The construction of an ethics guided by the Responsibility Principle; 4) The establishment of an ethical status to the body as a result of a unique way of interpreting the contingencies of someone's life; and 5) the reintegration of the sexual dimension, with no default, into the patient's day-by-day. If, at least in the sphere of phenomena capable of empirical verification, psychoanalysis is not concerned with organic matter, it is noteworthy that patients with diseases for which no remedy is still found, are declaring that they feel much happier after a short period psychoanalysis. It seems that this fact opens the way for further research aiming to study the correlations between body and language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses to the link between religion and the father, more specifically, the proximity of the God's image to the image of a father, elucidated by some texts of Freud and Lacan. According to Freud, what makes a person looks for religion is the feeling of helplessness experienced during the childhood, which is inherent for every human being. He shows us how religion uses this fact, bringing the image of the father to the spotlight of his reflection. If we think about the father in psychoanalysis, it is essential to use the Lacan's contributions, that points to the pluralization of the Name-of-the-Father which allows multiple meanings acting in a specific situation, and each individual is responsible for his best choice among the father's roles. The father, for Lacan, becomes like a node that joins the records Real, Symbolic and Imaginary. Through the concept of sinthome, Lacan emphasize that the father must show his faults, providing his children of going beyond it. However, this situation is only possible if the child sees the father as a standard to be followed or improved. It is what the religion does not allow to happen; it only offers a perfect Father-God to the individual. As the paternal reference has been weakened in the current family settings, the image of an unfaultable father is what a neurotic searches. Though, it is not possible for the father to be the peacemaker wanted by the neurotic because of his failures, which are related to the unbearable lack of assurance. So, the individual has a challenge: sets himself free of the effort of re-establish his father, accepting his faults and standing by him but not serving him. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]