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The subject of otherness in Melanie Klein is approached from her notions of "objects". At first, this paper sets her work within a general panorama of psychoanalytic theories, in a perspective that focuses the importance of the other in different conceptions about the psyche's constitution. Then, reflecting on notions of "partial object", "whole object", "internal object", "external object", "external world" and "external reality", this paper considers the limits and possibilities of the experience of otherness in Klein's work. Her ideas are characterised by a philosophical conception that simplifies the notions of reality and creates conceptual impasses, limiting the reach of the otherness in her work. Despite that, her formulations emphasize, in an original way, aspects of the subject and mainly of the object, giving special importance to the experience of otherness [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis of some of the German expressionist films produced in the early twentieth century enables us point to the existence of common and recurring themes such as the voluntary submission of individuals, the mass manipulation by leaders, the split personality, and the double. Although such issues seem to refer, at first, only to the characters' psychological disorders, Sigfried Kracauer seeks to demonstrate the relationship between the topics covered in expressionist films and Germany's social reality in the postwar period. In this perspective, the aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between aspects of the individual psychic reality, especially alienation, mental alienation, and estrangement produced by social reality. It puts together the strange (Das Unheimliche) discussed by Freud, the concept of estrangement (Entfremdung) by Marx, and the effect of estrangement in art (Verfremdungseffekt) by Bertolt Brecht, discussed by Herbert Marcuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the author circumscribes the notion of alterity using Andre Green's theoretical perspective and reflects about the vicissitude of the alterities in the psychoanalytical process. Initially, the author describes the dialog that A. Green develop with J. Lacan around the question of subjectivity and otherness, for in later stage deepen into the psychoanalytical process, showing how the transference induces objetalization and integration of internal and external alterities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to discuss some aspects of the problem of child sexual abuse, specifically incest, drawing on psychoanalysis and, in particular, the psychoanalytic practice proposed by Françoise Dolto, allowing the concepts of symbolic castration, symbolic function, and unconscious body image and language to take incest as the study object in order to propose a psychoanalytic clinic devoted to listening to the subject, going beyond the legal concerns of policies on reporting and complaints, but not interfering in them, reflecting on the role of the psychologist and psychoanalyst in the clinic for children of sexual abuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the dimension of alterity in Hans W. Loewald's work, presenting and discussing some of his theoretical conceptions. After a brief presentation of the author and his work, some formulations and concepts related to his original conception of reality are explained and debated, putting in evidence the place of alterity in his work. These conceptualizations are: the levels of ego-reality integration; the Oedipus Complex' relational understanding; and the idea of a continuous psychic constitution, in which the present time dimension acquires relevance. After that, his late formulations are presented, based on the Freud's second drives theory and his revised concept of projection. The ideas of unison and reverberation as empathy and the projection concept evidence the double presence of driving forces - in the ego and in the other ones -become related to the experience of knowledge about himself and about the world. These ideas especially evidence the dimension of alterity in Loewald's work [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Departing from Freud's image of the shadow of the object that fell upon the ego, Bollas discovers an inexhaustible source for his own ideas, unfolding a myriad of meaningful and creative contributions to contemporary psychoanalysis. Following a tradition in psychoanalysis that emphasizes the role of the environment in psychic constitution, Bollas turns to the main aspects of classical Psychoanalysis theory, either proposing new concepts or invigorating those already well established. Without committing to the easy solution of opposing intrapsychic and intersubjective conceptions about the psyche, he rather keeps them in a permanent and fertile dialogue. This paper, an introductory one, presents some of his major conceptions about the role of the other in the constitution of the silent - though evocative - roots of the unconscious in its structural dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the notion of discourse presented by Michel Foucault, this paper attempts to demonstrate the construction of aids through the medical discourse that began to designate the HIV virus as an ethiological agent, instead of coming from multicausal factors. It sought to evaluate the extension of such change in the nosographic categories that defined the concepts of risk group, risk behavior and vulnerability. The article sustains that the notion of risk group was responsible for the subjective and social representation of aids and for its changing into an epidemic. It pleads that the power of such representation was an impediment for the prevention campaigns' effectiveness, due to the particularities of the Brazilian culture. It concludes by pointing out that the present designation of aids as a controllable chronic infection can serve as a prevention strategy and also to the transdisciplinary researches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]