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The external soul is a notion that frequently appears in Machado de Assis's works, which indicates that otherness is important to the ego. The social mobility, social hierarchy, titles, appearance and social status relate to the external soul notion and also frequently appear in Machado de Assis's novels and short stories. This paper aims to relate the external soul and freudian's concept: ego, super-ego and narcissism, in order to demonstrate the affinity among them. These concepts and the external soul notion are discussed in the perspective of relationship between the individual and culture. The ego's formation requires introjections of objects through the identification's mechanism which the parents and social values convert in the permanent parts of the subjectivity. The external soul notion is characterized by an ambivalent relationship between both the external and internal aspects of human being, since the external soul is at the same time soul, psychic or subjectivity, and external, i.e., something in the individual that can be observed, analyzed or appreciated by the others. [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]

The aim of the present paper is to offer a psychoanalytical point of view about the religious movement entitled neo-Pentecostal. Such movement has been initiated inside the Protestantism and proposes a wide range of theological innovations, such as the Prosperity Theology, the Dominion Theology and a wide flexibility in customs and habits. It also presents a new kind of relationship with the Sacred. A bibliographical research on the themes religion, psychoanalysis and neo-Pentecostalism was carried out in order to comprehend which messages are passed on between the couple believer-God within these Churches; which enigmas are offered to the believer and which comprehension can be achieved of the divine word. Based on the references found, we analyse Neo-Pentecostalism from a few main matters: its therapeutic function (cures, miracles, or the subject reestablishment from the difficulties of life); its group formation (the bonds between believers and with their religious leader); the role money plays inside these temples (as an intermediation between the believer and God) and the relationship between the believer , God and the Devil (especially when these relationships achieve their highest level: the religious ecstasy and the Devil possession). We conclude that the encounter with God, a reliving of the meeting between adult and child, brings the demand for the believers' passivity as a condition to receive God's love and protection, reinstituting the original femininity of the subject's history. The religious person, in his or her effort to comprehend this superior other's messages, finds a conclusion in the neo-Pentecostal discourse, making it possible to the believers to rewrite their own history and keep themselves safe from helplessness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]