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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]

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]

The concept of unconscious is one of the cornerstones of psychoanalysis. However, in psychoanalytic theory it is possible to observe passages in whichthe discussion about this issue goes beyond the individual realm exploring relationships between subject and culture, phylogenetic inheritance and psychic transmission. Within this perspective, this paper aims to introduce the discussion on the concept of social unconscious pursuing its roots in Freudian Psychoanalysis and British Group Analysis. The methodology applied was a theoretical research. Under the leadership of the psychoanalysts and group-analysts Earl Hopper and Haim Weinberg, the article presents current research concerning its conceptualizations focusing on the interconnections between individual and society, the co-construction of social facts and the unconscious constraints and restraints in these relations. The article presents contributions of classical authors as Freud, Burrow, Fromm, Foulkes, Elias and Castoriadis as well as investigations of the contemporary scholars as Hopper, Weinberg, Dalal and Volkan. In the sequence, the paper points to psychoanalytic and group analytic research on trauma and psychic transmission in traumatized large groups. The study of the social unconscious is still in its beginning, but it will certainly add new dimensions to the investigation of the relationships between psychoanalysis and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a clinical case followed by the Program of Integral Attention to the Patient Judiciary - PAIPJ from the Court of Minas Gerais, this paper inquires about the passage to the act in the psychoanalytic theory and its possible specificities of the neurotic and psychotic structure. Therefore, the concepts of passage to the act and acting out were worked having as main references the theoretical developments of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. This paper allows clarifying that the passage to the act in neurosis is the precipitation of the subject, from a destabilizing meeting, out of the fantasy scene in which he occupied a position in response to the desire of the other. In the psychosis there is a tendency to operate directly on the real in the occurrence of passage to the act, as a way of stopping the Other in his invasive and excessive dimension. By the presented clinical case, this article discussed the relation among anguish and act, in addiction how into the psychosis the anguish is borderless and how it doesn't work as a signal, to the subject can be easier commit a passage to the act. This paper discusses yet the relationship that the psychotic subject has with his body and how the lack of resources in front of the enjoyment without location can sometimes lead him to death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paranoid manifestations may occur even in the absence of psychosis. This paper aims to discuss how it is possible. As a method of work, we carried out a bibliographical research, in which we used readings and re-readings of Freud and Lacan works, as well as contemporary authors of Psychoanalysis, such as Charles Melman and Marcel Czermak. To do so, we begin with Verwerfung notion as a mechanism attached to the psychotic structure, insofar as the parent-name may not be established for the speaker and remain foreclosed. In addition, Bejahung, dealing the primitive symbolization. We present the constitution of the I as properly paranoid because it has a rivalry base that puts at stake a (not always) latent aggressiveness that we can perceive in the typically paranoid manifestations that a subject can present, even if a psychosis cannot be verified. It is an operation inherent in one's own psyche and derives from the fact that one's self-an imaginary function-is founded on a basis in which one first apprehends the other. Finally, we discuss what paranoia is and how paranoid phenomena manifest themselves in order to contribute to a listening in the clinic beyond the closure of paranoid functions only in the field of psychosis. The imaginary constitutive mechanisms of the self cannot be taken in isolation as a criterion for the identification of the structure. We can find situations in which paranoid manifestations occur even in the absence of psychosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the specificity of the period of adolescence for a subject in order to situate references for a psychoanalytic understanding of this period that encompasses body changes and enigmas. This new period in the relationship of the subject with the Other has indicated that the body is always made up of an alterity which is problematic and that lacks investigation and discussion due to theoretical and clinical implications. We will situate epistemically the psychoanalytic discourse from the advent of the subject in the founding of modern science with the Cartesian cogito, demarcating its different approaches according to psychoanalysis and science. The exclusion of the body towards the extension and its return to the real of the clinic will be examined. From the Freudian Act that replaces the issue of the connection between body and mind, we will discuss the fundamental concepts of drive and unconscious, highlighting the steps taken by Lacan in the format of the concept of object a, which culminated in a design of the body as a jouissance substance, instead of the extensive substance that philosophy distinguished from the thinking substance. We intend to address the consequences of giving the body such statute, discussing the relationship of the adolescent with the satisfaction and the alterity of the body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes two notes to analyze the rivalry among young people in the illicit drugs' micro-trafficking from an interface between psychoanalysis and anthropology. For this, we use the notion of time and memory. In the first note, we work the hypothesis that the rivalry would have the function of connecting past and future by the vengeance. Because through vengeance the teenagers could get an inscription in time and a brand coined in history, which is perpetuated through memory. The second note discuss the circuit of deaths in the micro-trafficking including the know how that the teenagers develop to treat the mechanism of exclusion in which they are. In this sense, our hypothesis is that the death plays a structural role in the life of these youngs' system and comprises a positivity. From it, with it, they can achieve lifestyles to write their presences in the city, although maintain the death on the horizon. Upon appointment by the official records of the power devices, young people gain a public registration, while cancel out themselves on writing their own names in the history of mankind. So, at risk of death in the drug war that they took part, young people seem to crave not death, but the inclusion of a marginal writing, which does not win record in the language of the Other social. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From some Freudian reflections on art, the article asks about the conditions of possibility of a psychoanalytic research of the cinema. Is it possible to think of the cinematographic image as a language? In order to address this problem, this paper focuses on the theoreticalmethodological foundations of the cinematic language concept, as thought by Christian Metz's semiotics of cinema, and by film analysis by Raymond Bellour. It is within the framework of these elaborations that, in the early 1970s, intense research on the possible articulations between psychoanalysis and cinema appears. In it, one poses the problem of the subjective effects of this singular language. By adopting the Lacanian premise that language offers the infans the possibility of resisting the capture by the image, through the enunciation of itself, the article advances some methodological propositions about a singular orientation of research that denominates psychoanalytic filmic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This theoretical article proposes an exploration of subjectivity forms that are part of contemporaneity and investigates whether there are subjective characteristics in the youth cut that has been called Y Generation. One of the main characteristics of young people from the so-called Y Generation would be the constant use of digital technologies, a circumstance that would have accompanied throughout its development. From a theoretical review about the modalities of subjectivity articulated with psychoanalysis and the concept of Y Generation, this paper considers that the members of this generation are agents and subject of contemporary time and thus participate in the production of subjectivities. From this perspective, connections are discussed between the subjective characteristics already recognized of the contemporaneity and those that may be emerging from the Y Generation, in order to give it specificity, despite the standardization and stereotypes that the concept of generation gives it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a reflection on possible relationships established between anxiety and the impact of social norms on subjectivities. Nowadays, capitalism, combined with modern science is characterized not only by the authoritative definition of economic policies, but also by gestionais mechanisms that regulate and affect the constitution of individuals, encouraging the emergence of different forms of distress manifestation, such as stress, panic, helplessness, trauma and depression, which are particularly characterized by the silence of the subject facing the feeling of loss of stable horizons of reference, i.e., by suffering with no address, no Another. We resort to psychoanalysis and some Giorgio Agamben's ideas about the capitalism today to discuss these issues, as well as the possibilities of psychoanalysis and art to consider specific ways of confronting these civilizational facts that exacerbate the anxiety - placing itself against the capitalist interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research paper is to investigate in the light of The seminar, Book 17: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, by Jacques Lacan, the statute of the shame nowadays. The Lacanian concept of shame indicates that this feeling has an intrinsic relationship with the master signifier. Lacan shows that the sense of shame is disappearing. That statement intrigued us and made us to question what is causing the absence of shame in our society. We observed that there was a change society: the enjoyment that, before, should be covered with the veil of shame became blatant and shameless. In parallel, there is a change in the status of the superego, which can now be seen as having the imperative of jouissance. While affirming the absence of shame, Lacan does not fail to point out that this is an important sense for society, as well as for the analytic experience, because it helps us remember that we have a master signifier, hence the jouissance. Lacan suggests that It is desirable to configure the shame of another way, during an analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to clarify the issues of consumption today, a society called hypermodern, in which goods purchased not only allocates a social status, but also infers a symbolic identity. Based on literature and documents from the authors: Cuenca, Oliveira, Salis, Lipovetsky, Freud, Kehl, Debord etc., who based the understanding that, within society experiences of consumption are often permeated by a sense of "hyper" desires, which are often intense and grandiose. Society, obsessed with physical desires, does not experience a more creative and autonomous lifestyle with meaningful reflection. Through this, we comprehend the Western understanding of time and how this notion affects subjectivity; we observe crossovers between Psychoanalysis and Leisure, in order to understand how consumer relations are handled in the power game of the satisfactions produced by propaganda. Finally, we intend to answer if the subject influenced by over consumption can escape consumerism and become enlightened to an autonomous lifestyle of creativity from leisure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to present what place (function) of the psychoanalyst in general hospitals. Investigates this place from two dimensions that should be articulated: the dimension of psychoanalytic practice and the size of the institution. . It was concluded that the place of the psychoanalysts in general hospitals is somewhere between the clinical dimension and the institutional dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]