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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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 describes in what way Jacques Lacan opens a new path to approach the mystical experience in the light of psychoanalysis. The French master compares the path of the analyst to the one undertaken by the mystic and thus goes against the trends in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis that pathologized this phenomenon at that time and reduced it to hysterical or psychotic symptomatology. Lacan also draws an intimate connection between the goal of the analysis and the achievement of an opening to the feminine field. Following the path suggested by this author, we suggest distinguishing the notions of Other jouissance and jouissance of the Other, providing elements for a differential diagnosis between mystical experience (marked by desubjectification) and psychotic outbreak (marked by subjective annihilation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychoanalytic writings on transsexuality have increased exponentially. However, a gap remains in terms of what guides analytical practice aimed at transsexuals. Based on Butler and Laplanche, we perform a critical analysis of a clinical report and propose a hypothesis on the difficulties that came up during our theoretical studies and practical work with transsexuality. The paper concludes with a reflection on the ethical and political potential of psychoanalysis, advocating a clinic that goes beyond the "trans" diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the experience of the research "Applied Psychoanalysis and the Practice in the Community", based on the clinical service offered to the officers of the 10th Military Police Battalion of Rio de Janeiro State. In it we think about the particular characteristics of the psychoanalytic treatment of policemen, in order to understand the contingency of the possible management for traumatic events, so as to welcome the excess of jouissance present in the testimony that the policemen bring of their symptoms and passages to the act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to readdress the question of the universalization of the psychotic offender's criminal incapacity intended by article 26 of the Brazilian Penal Code and by Forensic Psychiatry, in light of the psychoanalytic experience, in a prison in Minas Gerais state. The case of the young murderer college student J.C. illustrates the importance of the psychoanalytic clinical method in the process of subjective accountability of the psychotic offender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on problematizing the State's concession of benefits to Mental Health service users, and on reflecting about the use the latter make of this money. Result of the authors' experience in deinstitutionalization strategies, this paper is based on the theoretical and clinical references of psychoanalysis - betting on the singularization of practices that exist in and around dealing with money in the field of Mental Health. Examples of clinic cases illustrate the problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the emotional and psychic constitution of children living in poor communities of Rio de Janeiro, where they are constantly exposed to extreme violent situations and feelings of helplessness, fear and despair, as well as a potential trauma. Based on a clinical practice developed with these children, the paper discusses the role of hospitality and empathy provided by the community that seems to contribute for their healthy development. Nevertheless, a precocious emotional development has been observed as a protective measure developed by children as an attempt of "caring for themselves". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the experience of the research "Applied Psychoanalysis and the Practice in the Community", based on the clinical service offered to the officers of the 10th Military Police Battalion of Rio de Janeiro State. In it we think about the particular characteristics of the psychoanalytic treatment of policemen, in order to understand the contingency of the possible management for traumatic events, so as to welcome the excess of jouissance present in the testimony that the policemen bring of their symptoms and passages to the act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to readdress the question of the universalization of the psychotic offender 's criminal incapacity intended by article 26 of the Brazilian Penal Code and by Forensic Psychiatry, in light of the psychoanalytic experience, in a prison in Minas Gerais state. The case of the young murderer college student J.C. illustrates the importance of the psychoanalytic clinical method in the process of subjective accountability of the psychotic offender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects about impasses and possibilities of the psychoanalytic clinic in an oncological hospital. The analysis of two clinical vignettes revealed that this kind of work is influenced by both clinical and institutional factors. To conclude, we point out that it is part of the analyst's task to draw the attention of the medical team to the singularity of the subject as far as possible, so that it may be included in the treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects about impasses and possibilities of the psychoanalytic clinic in an oncological hospital. The analysis of two clinical vignettes revealed that this kind of work is influenced by both clinical and institutional factors. To conclude, we point out that it is part of the analyst's task to draw the attention of the medical team to the singularity of the subject as far as possible, so that it may be included in the treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on questions posed by Renato Zwick's recent translation of "Hemmung, Symptom und Angst" to "Inibição, Sintoma e Medo" (inhibitions, symptoms and fear) (Freud, 1926/2016), this paper's goal is to highlight two dimensions of Angst that do not correspond to a same word in Portuguese. Following a theoretical overview of Freud's main texts on this subject, panic disorder is discussed in the fields of contemporary psychopathology and clinical practice, emphasizing these two affective dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on questions posed by Renato Zwick's recent translation of "Hemmung, Symptom und Angst, to "Inibição, Sintoma e Medo" (inhibitions, symptoms and fear) (Freud, 1926/2016), this paper's goal is to highlight two dimensions of Angst that do not correspond to a same word in Portuguese. Following a theoretical overview of Freud's main texts on this subject, panic disorder is discussed in the fields of contemporary psychopathology and clinical practice, emphasizing these two affective dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the relationship between the forms of subjectivation that result from situations of social vulnerability and crack abuse. Drawing from a clinical case, examine we examined how crack's action in the pulsional body is connected to the subject's experience and to his or her social embeddedness in society and sociocultural reality. We observed a strong connection between the body's statute in the use of crack and the place assigned to the body in situations of social vulnerability and exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the relationship between the forms of subjectivation that result from situations of social vulnerability and crack abuse. Drawing from a clinical case, examine we examined how crack's action in the pulsional body is connected to the subject's experience and to his or her social embeddedness in society and sociocultural reality. We observed a strong connection between the body's statute in the use of crack and the place assigned to the body in situations of social vulnerability and exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores issues related to transsexuality based on the psychoanalytic notion of hysteria as the subject basic structure. The impressive hysteria epidemics throughout history reveal how hysteria produces radical questioning of the sexual difference enigma intended to the dominant knowledge of each era. To answer the question about where is the hysteria place nowadays, we launch the following hypothesis: the most significant appearance taken by hysteria today is the transsexual epidemic, produced in the encounter with the science discourse, dominant in the globalized culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the clinical experience held in a rehabilitation center, this paper discusses the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosomatic patients in an institutional environment oriented by a medical-scientific and pedagogical discourse. It considers the hypothesis that such patients put themselves as the object of knowledge of clinical specialties that do not favor the invention of the unconsciousness, which would allow the revelation of the specific enjoyment that they are attached to. To address this issue, the study makes use of the Lacanian theory of the discourses, particularly the university and the analytical ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores issues related to transsexuality based on the psychoanalytic notion of hysteria as the subject basic structure. The impressive hysteria epidemics throughout history reveal how hysteria produces radical questioning of the sexual difference enigma intended to the dominant knowledge of each era. To answer the question about where is the hysteria place nowadays, we launch the following hypothesis: the most significant appearance taken by hysteria today is the transsexual epidemic, produced in the encounter with the science discourse, dominant in the globalized culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the clinical experience held in a rehabilitation center, this paper discusses the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosomatic patients in an institutional environment oriented by a medical-scientific and pedagogical discourse. It considers the hypothesis that such patients put themselves as the object of knowledge of clinical specialties that do not favor the invention of the unconsciousness, which would allow the revelation of the specific enjoyment that they are attached to. To address this issue, the study makes use of the Lacanian theory of the discourses, particularly the university and the analytical ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to describe and analyze certain aspects that concern the creation of a video installation by two artists in collaboration with mental health service users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The author highlights certain privileged issues regarding clinical practices: fragmentation and reintegration in psychosis, the use of images and their returns for participating customers, the role of the public for the expansion of the witness function, and the problem of authorship in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to describe and analyze certain aspects that concern the creation of a video installation by two artists in collaboration with mental health service users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The author highlights certain privileged issues regarding clinical practices: fragmentation and reintegration in psychosis, the use of images and their returns for participating customers, the role of the public for the expansion of the witness function, and the problem of authorship in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the effects of a music workshop on autistic and psychotic children. A literature review is carried out around the topics o f the voice, o f musicality in the relationship established between children and others and on the establishment o f subjectivity, especially around the notion o f invocatory drive. Finally, through analysis o f two cases from the workshop, a hypothesis is made about how the dimension o f surprise may contribute to the treatment o f autism and psychosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is based on a clinical situation in which the patient seeks an analysis because all her love relationships failed causing intense suffering. Along the treatment she says that she knows why her relationships come to an end: She stinks. We formulate the clinical hypothesis that stench is inserted into the patient’s psychic economy as a defense mechanism and, taking the concept of narcissism as a guide, we discuss the role of the olfactory hallucination as a psychic support for the patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, having Psychoanalysis and Canguilhem's approach to health as references, presents a clinical fragment of pediatric oncology and proposes a discussion concerning the concept of health in a context of complex technical interventions. This practice is focused on redeeming the subjective dimension - revealing that health, in these patients, concerns mainly the possibility each one of them has of creating possible ways of living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I shall discuss the issue of human exile and the incessant search for human identity by conducting a dialog between clinical experience and the literature of Imre Kertész, a Hungarian author and 2002 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the relation between clinical practice and public health using narratives of clinical cases of babies treated by the Public Health System's Primary Care with the support of the psychoanalytical theory. It was observed that the encounter involving user knowledge, the technical knowledge of the subject matters, and the knowledge of Public Health produced a motion that circulates on a paradoxical surface, producing a relation of "moebian supplementarity" between clinical practice and public health [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the two autobiographies written by Birger Sellin, an autistic author, which are portraits of his struggle to break the glacial autistic isolation by means of various strategies he developed and that allowed - to a certain extent - a treatment of invasive jouissance, but which also allowed him to keep his pseudopods extended towards others. The invention of Birgerian literature portrays the therapeutic effects of writing, highlighting its importance as a major tool for (self-) treatment in autism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the effects of pervert's denial (Verleugnung) of the other, the collectivity and highlights its possible directions. The related research was carried out at a family health unit in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and the participants were female community health workers in discussion groups. We discussed a clinical fragment in which a child had been abused by a perverse individual. There was a clear need for intervention to stop the pervert's jouissance and free the child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on literary classics viewed through concepts of Jacques Lacan, in this paper we discuss contributions from the field of literature to psychoanalytic clinical work related to the study of perversion. At this point in the research we are discussing four books: "Philosophy in the Bedroom, " by Marques de Sade, "In Search of Lost Time, " by Marcel Proust, "To the Left of the Father, " by Raduan Nassar, and "Finnegans Wake, " by James Joyce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hatred as an ingredient of inter-subjective workings is present in psychic life in different circumstances. In the clinical situation it reveals its multiple faces. Here we focus on the positive form that hatred can take on from a psychoanalytical perspective, as essential affect and a dynamic element in the affirmation of the ego. A clinical case illustrates this discussion. In brief, the paper stresses the need to amplify the analytical listening to hatred, its interpretation, and its management, which vary according to the vicissitudes it takes up and its purposes in psychic economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze a mental phenomenon related to psychopathology, namely, the double (Doppelganger) as a terrifying view of oneself as another. In psychoanalysis the double can be studied through the conception of the mirror stage and the optical model, as proposed by Lacan. Among literary elaborations on this universal phenomenon, E. A. Poe's "William Wilson" and Dostoyevsky's "The Double" can both be classified as fantastic in the sense of a literary genre. In our analysis of this phenomenon we compare the literary and the psychoanalytic models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Manuals of classification and diagnosis are highly objective when describing the etiology, differential diagnosis and treatment for persons suffering from the so-called eating disorders. But whereas medicine as a science must seek generalizations, psychoanalysis has the unconscious as its field of research and the subject as an effect of language. This paper deals with issues based on observations of preliminary interviews in a clinical case where the symptom of bulimia was present. The observations refer to specific aspects of the symptom in psychoanalysis, the radical difference between the concepts of "instinct " and "drive " and the particular production of knowledge in psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of treatments provided to drug users from a psychoanalytic perspective. Specific aspects of the clinical direction of the treatment of addictions are discussed, with a special focus on the concepts of subject, jouissance and ethics, brought up through fragments of clinical cases. We conclude that the psychoanalytic clinic does contribute to such treatments by opening up possibilities for a repositioning of the subject and new ways to configure jouissance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the role of ideas associated with the concepts of inclusion and exclusion plays among contemporary teenagers during the process of freeing themselves from family references and becoming part of more extensive institutional and relational networks. From listening to such teenagers in a clinical context, it becomes clear that the feeling of being inside or outside each specific context has become the dominant reference in their imagination and that they are therefore subject to a dichotomous and oppressive logic that tends to restrict the plasticity of their symbolic resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is on the topic of "evaluation and clinical evidence" and its relevance to the Italian context of mental health services. The subject is discussed based on the method of "clinical case construction," which is being developed at the School of Specialization in Psychiatry of the University of Milan. The practice of presenting and discussing cases is a way of evaluating the quality of these services. It is also proof that an evaluation tool can be developed which includes the singularity of the symptom as the axis of clinical work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]