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This article approaches the function of the rest in psychoanalysis from the dialectical link between theory and clinic. We work on the notion that a part of the experience with the body is not inscribed, that there is a residue, an impossible to be said. This rest, elided and excluded, can materialize in the form of an abject body, an expression of a socially non-legitimate way of being. A marginal body that causes horror outside the ideal of normality, happiness, or healthy life. Such formulations, then, arise from clinical listening and return to the clinic as questions and concerns about psychoanalytic work with the rest. We aim, in this article, to discuss some of the effects of Lacan's formulation (1962-63/2005) regarding object a, in the making of psychoanalysis. First, we will resort to Freud's (1915/2004) elaboration on the drive, in articulation with what Lacan formulated about the rest as a cause of desire. In a second moment, we will work with the specificity and subversion proper to the psychoanalytic clinic, based on listening to the subject of desire. For this, we will resort to this other implication between Lacan and Freud: the question of the Freudian clinic and that of the subject in Lacan, passing through its elaboration on the letter. We argue that the analysis foresees ways of writing the rest, on the threshold of the letter, calling for the invention of know-how with the real. We propose, therefore, that there is no clinic without considering the reverse, the filthy, the marginal, and the horror. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text intends to locate points of new solutions in the life trajectory of adolescents and young adults who were, in some way, involved with the practice of infractions. We ask ourselves to what extent the event experienced by the teenager can be welcomed by him as a new bond between the real, symbolic and imaginary records, which sustains the decision to disconnect from the relationship with crime, reinterpreting and adding new contributions to the sociological theory of disconnection from crime. Methodologically, we use the memory narrative, which aims to recover the life story from the free unconscious association of young people crossed by crime. The material that enabled such access is composed of 14 narrative audios, which were collected by different pairs of researchers who were part of the responsible research nucleus, in different territories of the municipality in which the investigation was carried out. For this work, a cut was made consisting of fragments of the narratives of three adolescents (up to 17 years old), seven young adults (between 18 and 20 years old), and four adults (above 20 years old) all male. The cases teach us that, while the name, in adolescence, presents a function of separation concerning the alienation from the Other, the namination would be related to binding of the three registers, as an effect of its incidence on the mode of enjoyment. The dimension of nomination teaches, in the work with the adolescent, that the expectations of the adult world can become ideals that are very distant from what the subject’s trajectory indicates, the only one that can guide their cause and create a name for enjoyment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article seeks to understand the unfolding that a discursive analysis of the Freudian utterance Wo Es war, soll Ich werden, and their different translations produce in the theoretical field of Psychoanalysis. Therefore, we take the utterance as a maxim that has linguistic characteristics (semantic and syntactic) that are not indifferent to the production of meaning. We seek to demonstrate how different interpretations, with distinct theoretical consequences, are produced in Freud's work, especially concerning the constitution of the subject from language, when this utterance is translated into Portuguese and French. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to talk about the psychic aspects of the suffering of the subjects who arrive at the Hospital, reporting or presenting some type of physical injury in the body. This perspective goes through the definition of Urgency Clinic in the field of Attention to Hospital Health. To this end, we invite Hospital psychologists and staff, who are in hospital establishments and have an interest in listening to the suffering subjects, in order to create a technical-theoretical and ethical-political horizon guided by Freud and Lacan psychoanalysis. In the Hospital, concepts of disease, treatment and diagnosis are considered by the medical and nursing team from, primarily, the biological point of view. In the Medical Discourse, the subject becomes objectivated and passive to his condition of "patient". Referenced by the notions of subject and subjectivity, we bet and apprehend, through our experience in a Unit of Care, that it is possible, in this context, a direction of treatment not excluding the subject of the unconscious. That is, the subjects, when talking about their stories, distresses and fears them the most, when they perceive their health affected by an accident, can reposition themselves in the face of "illness". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes a rereading of a chapter of the Emancipation and difference of Ernesto Laclau, with a view to isolate and problematize contemporary aspects of the notions of difference, democracy and freedom. In a dialogue between Laclau's theses and others, mainly from the works of Rancière, Todorov, Badiou and Lacan, the aim is to discuss the thesis of an "inconsistent totality" as a parameter for discussing the status of contemporary intersubjective bonds and social ties. At the end, it is examined, from the dialogue of the mobilized authors, the possibility that the incorporation of precariousness, emptiness and finitude into identity and social policies coincides with the end of emancipation and with the beginning of freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the work of the psychoanalyst Serge Leclaire, we intend to discuss in this essay the concept of letter coined within psychoanalytic thought passing laterally by Jacques Lacan and then articulating it to a problematic of the field of arts by the way of aesthetic reflection and reception of the work of art. Thus, we try to hypothesize the existence of a "literal art", in order to demonstrate to what extent artists reach psychoanalytic truths "without depending" on the theoretical corpus of the first. By rubbing Leclaire's reflection with certain "literal" works of art, we propose a kind of twist in Lacan's earlier relation between the dimension of the letter and the place of the object a in psychoanalytic theory. [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 essay aims to elucidate how the process of construction of the subject takes place, starting from the existentialist approach of Jean- Paul Sartre, in order to contribute to some approximations between Sartrian existentialism and social psychology. In the search to achieve this goal, we conducted a study using the main works of the French thinker, as well as other authors who study existentialism. In this sense, we develop this philosophical essay in three parts, which form a trajectory on the author's thought, seeking to highlight important concepts for the understanding of his ideas. The first of them addresses more basic points of Sartre's thinking, such as consciousness and aspects of being. Then we outline fundamental themes of his philosophy, such as freedom, the field of possible and bad faith. Finally, we focus the discussion on the relationships and processes that culminate in the construction of the subject. With this course, we aim to highlight the important contributions that Sartre's existentialist thought can offer to the social psychology field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The removal of the Family Power constitutes legal measure imposing a great challenge to legal professionals. The dialogue with other fields of knowledge can help to think of dismissal in order to broaden the discussion on this statute. This work is based on dialogue between Law and Psychoanalysis, analyzing the subject's relation to the laws in the context of the dismissal of the Family Power. Issues were addressed on the dimension of the law, as the fundamental and structural law of the subject; and laws, "written laws" with all the complexity, wandering and need that we could see. In this relationship, the violence and tyranny of the laws, the aspects related to the perverse use of the law, subjective destitution and the positioning of the subject facing the regulatory statutes are highlighted. Using the Antigone, the tragic dimension of the subject is mentioned, the subject is called to answer for his position, whether this has been to validate act on the unconscious injunction, whether it was to retreat in front of her. Antigone talks about the autonomy of the subject now no longer alienated to the other, it can subjectify his desire, meeting what he considers unfair or non-human, even if it is enrolled in such "legality". The study is in the sense of a psychoanalytic ethics and how the subject can be grasped in its desiring dimension in Law. The removal of the Family Power may mean for some expropriation of themselves in their parenthood and the "destruction" of ties and bonds that could be preserved by family through caring measures, for others it is the possibility of symbolic inscription by setting a law that inscribes them in human. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lacan's role in psychoanalytic field is very close to the construction of the concept of the subject in this field, since it was not Freud who established their formal foundations. Along the Lacanian school, however, we can see that the author moves from a position centered in language issues toward the preponderance of the real instance, path that has effects on the notion of subject. Gradually, it becomes clear the impossibility of covering the unconscious with the symbolic field, which makes the author clearly recognize the predominant role of drive in the construction of what we call the subject in psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking psychoanalysis of Freud and Lacan as a reference, we seek to weave previous theoretical considerations of an Intercession-Research in the Collective Mental Health context. To this end, we outlined the theories of subject and subjectivity, as well as the vision of "science" and knowledge production that is made possible from these concepts. Psychoanalysis elucidates a subject beyond I (Ego/Moi), as the speech deflagrates the hole in the speech. A subject that is not limited to a signifier, but it emerges from the symbolic movement to be represented by a signifier to other signifiers. This is because it is produced from the cascade of signifiers, like a swarm of meaning and it is in constant motion, the reasons enunciated the hypothesis of subjective processing. We speak about active subjectivity, which continues to produce new signifiers: production of new meanings from the subject-effects. We see, with psychoanalysis, a paradigmatic revolution in the epistemological field, while laying emphasis on the subjective production always via the subject. It enables a praxis which is placed in the condition of treating the Real by the Symbolic; an only partial treatment since the Symbolic does not have the last signifier able to fully tell the Real of the subject. In this way, it is from the perspective of the symbolic castration that is conceivable what we may call a psychoanalytic "scientific" field: a no-whole "science". The production of knowledge on the praxis, in the Intercessor Device, is inevitably tied to a subject's knowledge of himself, who is capable of operating equations in the impasses of the experienced subjectivity. Regarding to the knowledge of the research, it is produced a posteriori, and corresponds to a reflection on the epistemological status about the process of production of knowledge on the clinical praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In externalizing their wishes about the scope of psychoanalysis beyond the limits of the private practice, Freud was calling our attention to direct our gaze to the subject and his suffering, no matter the places or conditions he could be found. At the time, Freud was already indicating a possible link between psychoanalysis and the institution. As the analytical device is one that is not restricted to the office, but that applies to any analytic setting, the present work is a result of issues articulated in the research group "Psychoanalysis, symptom and institution" and aims to discuss the doing of psychoanalysis as an expertise that provides a place for the subject, regardless of where it operates. Therefore, we believe that in health facilities it does not happen in a different way, because even though the context is different, the psychoanalytic ethics is the same. Else, if the subject tends to be excluded when in an institution governed by medical knowledge, the psychoanalytic discourse, in turn, includes the subject, as far as it favors the well-saying of desire, a discourse which refers to the unconscious. In addition, to make a few observations about this issue, we refer to a curious expression by Lacan: "a discourse without words". With it, we can think of psychoanalysis as a discursive place, that have a different doing which allows the pronouncement of the subject of the unconscious through the word, offering the listening and thus allowing the rise of the subjectivity, providing a place to the subject, on and by the discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a discussion of the widespread today's perversion and its effects on individuals. To make this reflection, it uses a literature review. It presents the concepts of joy and perversion in Lacan's work and analyzes incidences of the capitalist discourse on the means of contemporary jouissance, using authors that wrote about the theme. It has as premise the information that the capitalist discourse, associated with the decline of the paternal function, focuses on subjectivity, producing specificities in the forms of today's jouissance. The individual becomes a serf of a super ego imperative, which imposes an insatiable surplus jouissance on him. The consequences of this are the constant out breaks of traces of perversion in our society, richly illustrated in the pages of the Internet. The capitalist discourse provides a general joy through a direct relationship with consumer goods. There is a promise of cure for the malaise with the contemporary objects. However, the division of the individual indicates an inability to complete the subjective missing with these objects. Thus, the wave of objectification imposed by culture does not end individual's discomfort, on the contrary, intensifies it. As a way out, subjects seek something that can individualize them in this global culture and for this, they use the same technological devices that the culture offers to cover their subjective division. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research report is to discuss the handling of transference in patients affected by psychosomatic phenomena, demonstrating that the analytical operation in this clinic is only possible from the analyst's role desire. Listening to a patient affected by hives, a disease classified as psychosomatic medicine as knowledge, highlights psychoanalysis as a speech that can operate any change in subject in relation to his suffering. It is emphasized that the management of the transfer is particularly difficult in these cases, because the patient seeks an answer to his disease and his speech is limited to the actual body, always in reference to this, pointing to a specific enjoyment set in a piece of meat which, as Lacan teaches, is proper to the psychosomatic phenomenon. The analysis of this case showed that the possibility of movement of the word from the fundamental rule of psychoanalysis, free association, which was strongly compromised during the start of treatment due to numerous speeches almost exclusively related to bodily infirmity, allowed patient build an analytical symptom and know about their disease by bringing family issues that favored many associations in advancing the analysis toward a nomination, where the Name-of-the-Father can work for her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]