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This paper proposes to launch questions under the conditions of possibility of an analytical work in contexts of various deprivations, characterized as contexts of vulnerability, through two theoretical operators -- anguish and shame. Given the experiences of previous research with a focus on the psychic constitution and the clinical-institutional work with undernourished children, it was necessary to develop some theoretical notes that help us to operate in this work. The reality of the families assisted by the NGO Institute of Early Childhood -- IPREDE, in Fortaleza-CE, is permeated by the coexistence with violence and the difficulties in relation to the conditions of life that they have and what they can offer their children. We attach our analytical discussion to the contributions that can be made by other fields of knowledge, such as sociology and economics, seeking to increasingly respect the complexity of the social phenomena and the rearrangements that the subjects make to fit them. Through the Freudian reading of anguish, new propositions about a metapsychology of shame and the theory of trauma of Ferenczi, we seek to understand what can psychoanalysis in these so-called vulnerable contexts. This is an always complex question, but we realize that clinical is not synonymous only with the office, but also with spaces of expression of the subject of the unconscious, regardless of the physical place and social situation to which the subject is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This papers originates from a clinical question concerning drug use in addiction as a lenitive to anguish. In view of this, we intend to confront and explore two points of divergence between elaborations of Freud and Lacan pertaining to the relationship between drug abuse and anguish. One of these concerns anguish's location, contrary to Freud, to whose point of view, castration precedes and initiates anguish, Lacan locates castration not further, but as allowing the subject to free themselves from an awakening of anguish. The other point concerns the Lacanian formulation about the adherence to the drug included as a measure by which one gets the breakup of a marriage to phallus, while for Freud, is a model of happy marriage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the possible implications of the exclusive breastfeeding programs which, strongly grounded on an ideal of motherhood, ensure the fulfillment of prescriptions regulated by the breastfeeding on demand, ruling that the mother should just provide to the baby, at least until the sixth month, the breast-milk as the only food and oral object. Resuming some considerations of Jacques Lacan, we propose to think of the tendency to excessive presence of the mother occasioned by this discourse that aims to benevolence, doing emerge, as a possible counterpoint, the baby like a rest- object at the maternal fantasy. Could we think the discourse of breastfeeding as favoring a prolongation of alienating relationship between mother and child, with serious consequences for the baby? As regards the maternal fantasy, the baby could be taken as an object of the jouissance for the Other? These are issues to be discussed throughout the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]