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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 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]