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This paper uses the concept of psychoanalytic culture, outlined by psychoanalyst Sérvulo Figueira, in order to discuss the construction of subjectivities in the United States in the 1970s. This concept refers to the assimilation of psychoanalytic ideas into artistic, advertising and media spheres, among others, and how they influenced and were influenced by the cultures that appropriated them. This enabled the design of scientific and popular methods of interpreting suffering and the construction of subjectivities. This paper focuses on the work of American artist Aline Kominsky (1948-2022), published amidst the sexual revolution debates of the 1970s. Kominsky was part of the counterculture generation that produced and distributed comics that challenged established social norms and the patriarchal nuclear family model and demanded the relaxation of sexual norms. The analysis of her work reveals how the artist sought in psychoanalytic ideas the ideal tools to contest social institutions and propose new and less oppressive civilizational models based on the reframing of sexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social, political and educational reality in Brazil, in recent years, has demanded new positions from the field that articulates Psychoanalysis and Education in the country. This article seeks ways for Psychoanalysis, as a critical theory, in dialogue with the field of education and politics, to contribute to a better understanding of the social symptoms that appear in educational issues and, in particular, in the wave of violence that currently plagues educational institutions. We understand that the recent attacks on schools have to be seen in the context of several other attacks, from the historical lack of investment in education in the country, to the spectre of death that surrounds everyday school life, with the high rates of homicides and suicides in adolescents - expressions and consequences of necropolitics and the suicidal state that is installed in Brazilian society. When discussing educational aspects, we necessarily need to articulate issues of science, nature, economics and politics. By way of conclusion, this paper provokes the need to transmit to young people the desire to imagine other worlds and dream other dreams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with my process of subjectivation with implications in my psychoanalytic practice over sixty years in the light of the complexity paradigm. From the perspective of complexity, which replaces the fragmentation paradigm, my gaze joins the different dimensions of reality, and thus my subjectivity is inseparable from my praxis and the environment of which I was a part, the Psychoanalytic Society of Porto Alegre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the growing number of murders of black people, many of whom were institutionalized, and based on emblematic cases, this paper aims to reflect on crime, the criminal, and the structural and historical racism of countries such as Brazil and the USA by following the psychoanalytic theory. It questions whether we have really overcome the systemic and indiscriminate racism of the Brazilian slavery period, or whether such racism has only changed its foundations, institutionalizing and persecuting black people as scapegoats against whom legalized punishment is authorized, or who are seen as evil incarnate and susceptible to punishment. Therefore, it seems that a current mode of enslavement allows us to choose black people as the criminals of our unconscious, for whom death is allowed, justified, and even necessary, in order to satisfy the desire to enjoy the suffering of the other, classifying that part of society as dispensable, since we support an ideal of a country that fosters slavery values and relegates evil to black people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a psychoanalytical perspective, violence against women must be approached as violence against the feminine -a Lacanian concept that goes beyond the anatomy or the man/woman dichotomy and involves different modes of jouissance. Although there have been many advances in the social and legal fields, addressing violence still demonstrates the fragility and the need for policies and rights for women. This paper is based on articulating the image and discourse resources made in the miniseries Maid to address specific topics consistent with the problem and draw implications for theory and clinic. Thus, it seeks to reflect on the possible subjective strategies for coping with domestic violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the result of a part of doctorate research. The aim is to understand the implications of the compulsion to repeat in the analysis of borderline cases to discuss the possibilities of overcoming the difficulties it entails. To that end, theoretical research was carried out on André Green's works on borderline cases. It showed that although the compulsion to repeat implies significant difficulties for analysis -which favors stagnation and casts doubts on the analyst's skills to bind together and represent-, it does not corroborate therapeutic inaccessibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the process of communicating the diagnosis of childhood cancer considering the child's position, the parents' place, the effects of the medical discourse, and the intervention possibilities of the discourse of the psychoanalyst. Based on three clinical cases, the discussion points out how the analytic listening helped the team faced with a bioethical conflict increasingly present in pediatric oncology: should the child know the truth, or should they be protected from it? Being aware of the impossibility of telling the whole truth, the analyst can disentangle themself in advance from these imperatives and provide a discursive turn which highlights the child subject's singular knowledge in detriment of the formal academic knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the relationships between psychoanalysis and photography, stemming from the Photographic Service of the Salpêtrière, where Freud did a research internship in 1886 with Jean-Martin Charcot. Drawing significantly on the work of Georges Didi-Huberman, the purpose of this paper is to show how photography might be useful to a psychoanalytic investigation - starting with Salpêtrière, with all its importance in the history of psychoanalysis, which relevance becomes particularly evident when we consider the Salpêtrière's photographic iconography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to present the theoretical construction on female sexuality and femininity in Freud, and then question it from a racial and gender perspective. To this end, the main references employed were works from black female authors who discuss the ethno-racial subject, as well as some which address gender and theories of intersectional feminism. This paper observed the conception of a universal woman that includes the attribution of traits of femininity which are linked to a white, bourgeois and motherly woman figure and, therefore, aren't comprehensive of gender, race and class in their totality, in order to erase the black woman's experience, marked by racism and a slavocratic history. Thus, an omission from Psychoanalysis can be observed regarding to the racial issue and, therefore, the need of think about a contextualized psychoanalysis, which takes into account the historical and social aspects of the reality in which it is inserted, is evident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the criticism by Paul B. Preciado, as well as some of its ramifications, in respect of psychoanalysis, which was presented at a conference held at the École de la Cause Freudienne, on November 19th, 2019. We intend to recognize and welcome Preciado's commentary and, in a more comprehensive manner, achieve this through the contemporary perspective of other disciplines, while also considering the possibility of the development of a new epistemology that sets the multiplicity of bodies and sexualities in contrast to the reading undertaken regarding the sexual difference within the psychoanalytic field. For this purpose, we critically analyze the response of three psychoanalysts to Preciado's intervention, and we discuss the issue with the epistemology of sexual difference while situating it in the contemporary dialogues between psychoanalysis and queer studies. Finally, we establish an interpretation of the sexual difference linked to the concept of apparatus, which is proposed by Michel Foucault; namely, as a political epistemology, and as a historically contextualized grammar of subjectivities, among others that are also possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To better understand the widespread perception of misgovernment and helplessness in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article examines two historic moments referring to the interface between plague and helplessness, from the psychoanalytic and political perspectives. Firstly, it addresses the intertwining between Freud's life and work, culminating with his experience during the Spanish flu pandemic, in 1920. Secondly, it analyses the measures put in place to combat the coronavirus pandemic, since March 2020, which -- until the moment I am writing this article (January 2022) -- killed more than 600,000 Brazilians and left more than five million families around the world in mourning. This paper asserts that the feeling of helplessness unveils a state of denialism and misgovernment, which calls into question the Brazilian rule of law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a theoretical reflection on some potentialities of the aesthetic moment: this is configured, at the same time, as a refuge from the storms of the present, as a possibility to strengthen the individual's ties with life, and as an opening to the future. The English pianist James Rhodes's relationship with classical music, as narrated by him in his autobiography, is presented as an expression of such potentialities. During its argumentation, the text describes the aesthetic moment as a moment of loosening of the boundaries of the self, which updates, to a certain extent, the infant's primordial relationship with the maternal object. The article emphasizes the limits of the aesthetic moment, as it does not replace the need for human interaction, while indicating its potential as a kind of bearable waiting place which keeps the horizon of the encounter open. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses trauma as an in-body memory based on ramifications that are manifested as "acts" in the body, and which replace psychic elaborations. In thispsychoanalytic perspective, repetition is manifested as fixation to a joissance "beyond" and as regression as a kind of memory that avoids the new and looks to traces of past memory left in the body. To this end, the nightmare lived and narrated by activist Eve Ensler in her book In the body of the world: A memoir (2014), will be used as reference. Ensler speaks of the deeply intimate and painful relationship she has with her body and how it changed throughout her life, after spending time with women victims of sexual violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the assumption that affect is a key determinant in recognizing contemporary family relations in law, a discursive field that officially legitimizes the family. To do so, a theoretical research explores the notion of affect in everyday language, which equates it to emotions, feelings, and passions, comparing it with the definitions of psychopathological semiology, which also fails to conceptualize the aforementioned notion. Psychoanalysis is used, therefore, to broaden the discussion, understanding affect as an effect produced by relations with the Other in the Self and in the body through the signifier. This allows us to include desire and demand in the reading of family relations, and thus to consider affect beyond its imaginary dimension and contribute to the work of psychologists who deal with family law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to delimit the theoretical path of the concept of Death Drive in Jacques Lacan in order to emphasize its relationship with the Freudian concept das Ding and Object a. In this sense, we will be directly involved with the field of the Real as a record of the inadequacy that escapes the imagery and symbolic processes that build our perspective of the world. Therefore, we will specifically deal with the Death Drive as a negative ontology that is present in the transference bonds of analysis and our subjectivity, as well as trace its relationship with Object a, object-cause of desire. In this sense, our aim is to highlight the way in which the Death Drive is directly linked to Symbolic Castration and how it affects us. Finally, we will make some considerations and draw some conclusions about the Death Drive within the Lacanian project as the engine of the analytical process as the foundation of transference bonds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The diagnosis of depression is one of the most prevalent in contemporaneity, with an incidence considered an epidemic by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2020). According to psychoanalysis, the study of depression should be carried out in the clinic individually but also by analyzing the sociocultural perspectives in which the subject is inserted. This paper, which is the result of a master's research, proposes a discussion on the diagnosis of depression from a psychoanalytic perspective. It also presents a case report of a patient treated in a private clinic. The discussion focuses on the Lacanian discourses and their contribution to contemporary clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper posits that autists do possess knowledge on the autistic psychological functioning. To demonstrate it, the article examines the autobiographical accounts of Lucy Blackman, a non-verbal autistic writer, whose analysis allowed us to understand the logic of autistic symptoms and highlighted the feasibility of a new libidinal regulation in autism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teenagers and youngsters find different ways to escape from the world scene. In the contemporary context, we can find slow or "non-violent" suicides through chemical substances, ingestion or refusal of food, exposure to risk factors, and suicide unconsciously sought through fatal accidents, among others. This paper will focus on the psychoanalytic approach to adolescent suicide, identifying this topic in both Freudian and Lacanian works and discussing contemporary authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We confer to the "prelude to the interviews" a relevant treatment device in psychoanalysis. This paper aims to propose, through the presentation of some case reports and the theoretical elaboration on the referred cases, a treatment device prior to the preliminary interviews. The path for writing the text was built from the clinical practice of a psychologist, guided by psychoanalysis, in a hospital of the Santa Casa de Misericórdia complex. The bibliographical references used for theorizing the praxis were borrowed from the work and teaching of both Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, as well as from contemporary psychoanalysts commenting on them. Thus, we designate the prelude to the interviews as the major contribution of the praxis in the context of hospital emergencies, and it proves to be, in this sense, a beneficial tool for the practice of psychoanalysis in institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate the impasses in the process of black identification in Brazil and its socio-historical trajectory, shaped by factors of social paranoia inherent in the process of violence and crime. Freudian psychoanalysis recognizes that identification is the primitive and primordial form of affective linkage with an object, i.e., a process deeply rooted in the subject's singularity and our social activities. Furthermore, the psychoanalytic clinic would demonstrate this symptomatic manifestation in the process of identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we aim to reassess the relevance of the concept of subjection in the guise of the contribution of Donald Winnicott. Traditionally associated to psychological development theories and more recently to identitarianism,the ideas of the English psychoanalyst are usually eschewed in contemporary debates regarding the deconstruction of the subject and the critique of identities. Advancing a repositioning of Winnicott in this debate, we propose the idea of a double turn, the first organizing the pre-subjective position that Winnicott named as being; and the second turn, the emergence of the subject itself from the dialectics of destruction x survival of the other. [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 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]

The intent of this paper is to shed new light on a piece written in 2005. To this end, the original text will be reviewed by one of the authors in an attempt to put in words a series of conversations on gender identity in childhood and adolescence, in order to pay a posthumous tribute to the main author of the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a thematic approach to Civilization and the new discontents, the author, instead of dealing with the new, discusses the topic based on the invariance existing in the current scenario around us. Although it may be impossible to forget that the plague brought serious and diverse consequences, this paper highlights what has not changed, the caesura as a bridge between the pre and post-catastrophic states marked by the pandemic. It is used by the paraphrase that there is much more continuity between the affliction of today and the malaise of which Freud spoke to us in 1930, than Covid-19's impressive cesura would suppose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject/culture intersection is a conviction of Freud since the beginning of Psychoanalysis. In Civilization and its discontents, he points out a similarity between the cultural process and the libidinal development of a subject in the destinies of the drives, that is, if human beings organize themselves socially as a protection against helplessness, reflecting on whether such organization is at the service of the connections of the life drive or the death drive becomes important. Based on the idea of utopia as a civilizing ideal, this paper discusses the notion of discontent proposed by Freud in 1930, drawing on thinkers concerned with contemporaneity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a fragment of a larger project, which addressed the possibilities of come to be in a sheltering institution. We proposed to perform a reading operation (Jerusalinsky & Berlink,2008) of the relationship established between infants who are living in residential shelters and their respective caregivers. We discussed the observation of two infants, with 14 and 18 months-old, sheltered in two different residential shelters in Porto Alegre (RS - Brazil). We conducted four visits to each house, in which each infant was observed in relation to their educating agent, using the Clinical Reference Indicators for Child Development (IRDIs). We also seek, from fundamental concepts of D. Winnicott’s theory, support to reflect on what has been shown in evidence in the relationship between infants and carers in a way that the conceptions of environment and (dis) continuity of care served as the basis for this reading, allowing the emergence of some notes: even emphasizing the right of continuity of care that every child has, the separation of the mother / family is not necessarily traumatic in itself. We understand, therefore, that even if they have a first mark (deprivation of the original family), there is a possibility that the baby develops satisfactorily in the context of institutional care, as long as he can establish an encounter with someone/environment available to support him, to provide an experience of continuity and to prevent that this initial suffering makes him incapable of come to be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The void pathologies are increasingly present in contemporary society, requiring the knowledge of intervention strategies to be used with patients who arrive at the psychotherapists' offices. Therefore, this study aimed to identify which pathologies are commonly associated with void and which psychoanalytic techniques are used to treat these patients in Brazil. An integrative review were performed through searches in three databases: Virtual Health Library (VHL), Scielo and Pesic. A total of 1323 articles were located, remaining nine papers after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The main findings suggest that depressive conditions and eating disorders are associated with void in Brazil. It was observed that the brazilian literature lacks of publications that address the psychoanalytic intervention techniques used to treat the void pathologies. Those results are discussed with international literature that demonstrates psychoanalytic interventions for the treatment of some of the conditions associated with void. National empirical studies are recommended to investigate whether the techniques used internationally are equally effective in Brazilian patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we intend to think about the issue of truth in psychoanalysis, based on its proximity to the idea of post-truth and to the fake news, which achieve status of absolute truth and foment hatred in social networks. For being disseminated in interconnected networks, they allow words to widely circulate. Concerning the field of psychoanalysis, the explosion of fake news and their effects on discourse raise questions about the relationship of language and the field of the Other, and about its drive effects, leading us to debate the symbolic order in our century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will discuss the effects and influences of Lacan's dialogue with different representatives of the English and French schools of psychoanalysis in their elaborations on mental anorexia. In addition to the contributions of classical psychiatrists and Freud, the developments of authors such as Anna Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Dolto and Aulagnier find echoes in the various mentions and approaches that Lacan made about anorexia. We will dedicate a section to each of the main points in which these authors inquired about the subject. Then, we will discuss the approximations and disagreements between them as well as with Lacan's conceptualizations. Some conclusions as well as subsequent lines of investigation will be delimited from the discussion process itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article lists some issues considered crucial for correlating Psychoanalysis and Law, especially the field of Human Rights, taking as an axis of correlation the relationship between the concepts of psychological suffering, helplessness, psychoanalysis ethics and the subject of the unconscious. We suggest reflecting on the statute of law and the social bond based on a shift in its concept of subject and pose the following question: Is the subject of law, based on the rational and conscious human person guided by the humanist tradition and the economy of goods still able to respond to impasses in the field of politics and social ties? Founded on Lacan's assertion that the object of psychoanalysis is not man, but what he lacks -- not an absolute lack, but the lack of an object --, this paper uses that statement for its critical approach to the discourse of Human Rights to highlight an epistemological pathway beyond philosophical and social criticism and thus to enable the emergence of something new that can be constructed based on psychoanalysis: the impossible of the universality of Human Rights Declarations and the consequent convocation of the subject of desire in extimity to the subject of law, based on the clinical method as a way of addressing the suffering which humanism, classical ethics and the discourse of Human Rights cover. [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]

Constantly, we hear teachers complaining that today's student is no longer like the one of the old days. This leads us to question about what has in fact changed or has affected the relationships that are built in the school context. In the eagerness to seek answers to this issue, we ask: Is a dialogue between Psychoanalysis and Education possible? Thus, the purpose of this paper is to present reflections on some studies already conducted on the approximation between Psychoanalysis and Education, as well as on possible matches and mismatches between these two fields. The results of these approximations point out that the desirability of the subjects involved in the teaching and learning process, their subjectivity and their roles in this process can be a way to give a new meaning to the relationships that are built in the school context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reviews Freud's work to understand the constitution of moral and ethics in the human psyche. It broadly examines concepts such as narcissism, destructiveness and otherness, which are part of the formation of the moral and ethical process. It highlights the feeling of tenderness, a Freudian concept, in the intertwining and complementarity of moral and ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author seeks to discuss the relationship between ethics and psychoanalytic technique, considering that Freud, since the beginning of his studies, already postulated an ethics for psychoanalytic work. In the letters to Fliess and also in the Project, an outline of ethics was already mentioned. Several other authors, including Klein and Bion, also based their theoretical-clinical elaborations on an ethics based on the search for unconscious truth of the patient. The author also speculates that it is proper of the human condition to hear and be heard. Therefore, Freud, while listening his patient's complaints, trying to understand what was expressed through symptoms, the free association of the patient and the fluctuating attention of the analyst, was giving meaning to this human encounter where one listens and the other speaks. The paper also seeks to discuss the origin of ethics through the ideas of some authors, such as Chetrit-Vatine, Zwiebel and Nemas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, focused on the problem of sexual addiction within psychoanalysis, the authors initially reveal that the basis of their theory can be found in the early days of Freud's work in the field of present neuroses. In later psychoanalytical research, this clinical situation tends to be considered close to sexual perversion. In this paper, the intertwining of these two clinical pictures is explored to identify points of convergence and divergence, emphasizing, however, the singular nature of sexual addiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, focused on the problem of sexual addiction within psychoanalysis, the authors initially reveal that the basis of their theory can be found in the early days of Freud's work in the field of present neuroses. In later psychoanalytical research, this clinical situation tends to be considered close to sexual perversion. In this paper, the intertwining of these two clinical pictures is explored to identify points of convergence and divergence, emphasizing, however, the singular nature of sexual addiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It takes into consideration the different contexts and multiple repercussions associated with each specific experience of sexual abuse in adolescence. It is based on the premise that the psycho-dynamic approach offers the possibility to access the subjective implications of sexual abuse in adolescence. This paper used to illustrate the case study of Liz, a 14-years old girl interviewed after being sexually abused. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the contribution of the use of the Therapeutic Consultation to understand the impact of the sexual abuse of adolescents, especially the unique vicissitudes of being after the traumatic experience. Donald Winnicott developed this psychodynamic approach as a way to make the fullest use of the undefended material of the history-taking of the first interview or interviews. It requires an appropriate analytic setting, a holding environment, where the analyst can make use of the experience of mutuality. The objective of the Therapeutic Consultation is to identify the psychic conflict and to intervene to provide mental health. In conclusion, the psychoanalytic technique of Therapeutic Consultation is a useful mean of intervention for professionals who have to deal with cases of sexually abused adolescents in institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1970s, Michel Foucault made strong criticisms of psychoanalysis. To the author, it was constituted as a normative knowledge capable of responding to the medical-legal demand. In this way, the knowledge about sexual drives was fundamental to build modern psychopathology. Therefore, the figures of the masturbating child and the polymorphous perverse child appear as the genealogy of the sexual or abnormal monster. Foucault then interprets that psychoanalysis arises insofar as it diagnoses the subject according to the different destinies regarding the Oedipus complex. In this paper, we verify how Freudian psychoanalysis can respond to Foucault’s criticisms. In our opinion, the concept of death drive will be fundamental for this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work proposes a reflection on the importance of psychoanalytic listening to the noise of the time, at a time when the events of the pandemic are still ongoing, therefore, in which we are still in a position of obscurity in relation to the subjectivity of the time. In this sense, this work proposes to think about "brutality" - signifier extracted by Freud and Mbembe from the pandemics of their times -, that runs through the current discourse, in a kind of pandemic language. From these considerations, the paper introduces the importance of this dossier, as an interim contribution of an international network of psychoanalysts to the current challenges of Psychoanalysis and Education interface. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to highlight, trough the narrative of the polish writer Bruno Schulz, a possible operator for the link between psychoanalysis and literature: text (literary novel or a life narrated in analysis) as the result of the impossibility to represent real. The reading of Schulz with the guidelines from Freud's and Lacan's psychoanalytic theories let us examine what we have called "map of absences and obliterations" in the compilation of fifteen short stories The street of croocodiles. This map traces the lines of a territory in which is possible to highlight the reverberations of Freud's concept of strange, and enable us to reflect upon the effects of the reading Schulz's works. [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 presents the report of the activity Conversation circles: the confrontation of inequality through art, held at the 1st SPPA Social Vulnerability and Psychoanalysis Symposium, which is the result of the interinstitutional work built fourteen years ago between City Education Department of Porto Alegre (SMED), Pescar Project and Porto Alegre Psychoanalytical Society (SPPA). In this activity about art and psychoanalysis, music and poetry are placed as a possibility of building more flexible narratives, where urban violence can be thought, promote new intersections and discussions between people in collective spaces in our city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes the theoretical bases for the elaboration of a new definition for Psychopathology, conceiving it as the study of the morbid impasses disturbing, or even preventing, the realization of a singular subject within the social bond. The notion of subject at issue is the one arising from the psychoanalytic thinking of Freud and Lacan. The (psycho)pathology of the subject relies on the ideas of Viktor von Waizsaecker, for whom "pathology", unlike the biological notion of "disease", is a phenomenon that presupposes a subject as such. It is also inspired by Pierre Fédida's work, which claims that psychopathology refers fundamentally to the subjective pathos, in its multiple semantic dimensions of passivity, suffering and passion. The consequences of the redefinition of the (psycho)pathology proposed here apply to the set of clinical practices, either medical-psychiatric or others, through the ethical and technical specification of the treatment, now guided by the care with the possible and responsible realization of the subject as a language being, inside the social bond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The starting point of the paper is to show the relevance and timeliness of Freud's theory of psychosis. In this sense, the objective is to retake the literature aiming to delimit an inaugural hypothesis about the triggering and the stabilization, in which the disturbance of the drive functioning was already constituted as an important factor in the psychic etiology of its triggering and the delirium, as a psychic work repair, stabilization. To this end, the article exposes a survey of Freudian references to show the epistemological development of the etiological research whose specificity lies in 1: Considering the etiology of psychosis in light of the drive invasion; 2: Isolate, through the concept of rejection, a specific psychic process of defense against the drive which results in the loss of reality; and 3: Define the function of delirium as restorative, a restorer of reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the issue of wandering in a transtructural form, as a vicissitude that occurs in different clinical structures, and verifies its positivity: the possibility, from erring, to building up something new. Based on the connection between psychoanalysis and art, the paper refers to the writing of James Joyce to investigate the wandering and analyze the path taken by the writer, initially in a vagabond position, wandering, until he invented with his art a place for himself in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a psychoanalytic reading of the practice in an institution for adolescents who have been threatened or whose rights have been violated. We will approach, initially, some aspects of the public policies in Brazil in relation to adolescents. Then, we will use the way psychoanalysis thinks adolescence to, finally, illustrate the possibility of practice of psychoanalysis with young people under institutional protection, as defined by the Technical Orientations (CNAS & CONANDA, 2009) which aim at taking care of adolescents whose rights have been violated and their family bonds broken or weakened, in order to enable a family reintegration or to locate them in a foster family. The institutional care provided to this population is the result of a legal action of exceptional character and it should last as short time as possible. Additionally, it aims at protecting the rights established by law for children and adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews what Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) wrote in his works regarding sciences, and then it seeks arguments which allow to propose the scientific nature of psychoanalysis. It begins with Heidegger's critique of western metaphysics and with the explicitness of its characteristics; it takes into account some of the philosopher's considerations on sciences and, especially, his critique of the scientific ontotheology. It ends with a reflexion on psychoanalysis and the fundamental aspects of sciences according to the philosopher. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]