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This paper analyzes the psychoanalysis subjects taught in psychology programs in the state of Acre by the syllabus and bibliographies of the corresponding disciplines, available on the curricular pedagogical projects of the four existing programs. A descriptive and qualitative study was conducted based on documentary sources investigated by content analysis. The results indicated syllabuses that emphasize Freudian teachings and a preference for national publications. Lack of classes on psychoanalytic research and clinic beyond the classic model stands out amidst the identified gaps, calling for changes that may subsidize investigations and practices in the Amazon context, fomenting the development of this approach aiming at the formative journey that the Freudian discipline requires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Philosophy of Science became an autonomous discipline in approximately 1922 giving rise to the Vienna Circle. The main purpose was to define precisely the concept of 'science' in order to be able to decide univocally which manifestations of human thought should be considered scientific and which others should be excluded to the plane of pseudoscience. With regard to psychology, North American behaviorism agreed with the basic stances of the Vienna Circle, giving a central value to experiments and controlled observations. In concern to Psychoanalysis, the Argentine philosopher Mario Bunge suggested that "[...] it is the most interesting and successful of the pseudosciences [...]" (Bunge & Ardila, 2002, p. 122), assuming a concept of traditional 'science' that is deeply embedded in the social imaginary of western culture. In Latin American faculties of Psychology certain social representations are constantly widespreading, probably inspired by the deficient traditional teaching of philosophy of science at high school and universities too. In this paper we will try to settle down the grounds to develop a philosophical-pedagogical project in order to achieve a superior proposal for the teaching of Philosophy of Science in the career of Psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes in what way Jacques Lacan opens a new path to approach the mystical experience in the light of psychoanalysis. The French master compares the path of the analyst to the one undertaken by the mystic and thus goes against the trends in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis that pathologized this phenomenon at that time and reduced it to hysterical or psychotic symptomatology. Lacan also draws an intimate connection between the goal of the analysis and the achievement of an opening to the feminine field. Following the path suggested by this author, we suggest distinguishing the notions of Other jouissance and jouissance of the Other, providing elements for a differential diagnosis between mystical experience (marked by desubjectification) and psychotic outbreak (marked by subjective annihilation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 aim of this paper is to trouble the epistemological differences between the psychiatric medicine and the psychoanalysis and since the psychiatry makes use of his medical power-knowledge to regulate the "truths" of the science on the abnormal behaviour and the pathological psyque. The article makes use of some emblematic registers to summarize a line of action of the psychiatry for maintenance of his majority condition like práxis of psychological intervention near the society. Initially, some epistemological distinctions will be put, in order to establish the theoretical and practical differences between the psychological, psychoanalytic and psychiatric clinics, which they integrate what Foucault called a function-psi. The objective is to become evident that the scientific community diversities and the impacts on the knowledge of the human psyque that are imposed like knowing for the clinic they are expressions of an epistemological plurality with ruptures on the method and biomedicine cognitive presupposes. The argument will be placed on the psychoanalysis through Freud's position about the psychoanalyst's formation in defending the lay analysis. From these discussions will be analyzed a paper published in a medical journal in 1965 where some psychiatrists are interviewed about the legislation of the psychologist profession in Brazil. As in relation to psychoanalysis, at Freud's age, as in relation to psychology when it was regulated, the attitudes are similar , since it is considered dangerous the clinical activity in the psy field by non-physician professionals, who are called lays. The updating discussion appear in the debate continuity about the health area regulation by medicine, on the medicine regulation way proposed in two bills being that the last remains more than six years in the National Congress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the contributions that a psychoanalytic perspective might bring to understand the condition of foreignness. To achieve this we interviewed a group of students linked to the higher education programs from countries whose official language is Portuguese. The analysis revealed that foreignness can be experienced by the subject as a conflict inherent to its nature: the helplessness facing everything that is unfamiliar may be reinforced in case of the contradiction of the "same" language spoken. The subjects referred to certain conditions and experiences of foreignness that may hinder the acceptance and identification with the new culture: the reasons for the choice of Brazil, the arrival, integration, school partnership, affective and sexual relationships, the perception of Brazilians and the difficulties encountered. From this emerges a vulnerability of the psychic sphere that reveals the deconstructive potential realized only when it occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase in the use of drugs and their subjective effects are an epidemic problem for public health. This paper presents the results of a qualitative study on the subjective condition of eight young addicts that have sought help in rehabilitation clinics. The methodology of interpretive analysis of data collected from the interviews used the psychoanalytic theory. The precariousness of primordial relationships resulted in a construction of subjectivity marked by abandonment and helplessness. The understanding of the subject condition and his relation with the object drug reveals a psychic pain that meets, in the anesthesia offered by the drug, a coping strategy. It was found that the intensity of the early experiences in life, and not psychic elaborated, meet, as a form of discharge, the path of the act. The observed psychic fragility reaffirmed the necessity for an expansion of strategies of dealing with drug addiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A few years ago, the evidence raised by the neurosciences and the proliferation of psychopathological categories have contributed to the legitimacy and the multiplication of speeches filled with promises of cure for mental suffering. In this context - where psychopathology is approached from a predominantly biological understanding and the proliferation of diagnostic categories is accompanied by the predominance of a syndromic approach to mental illness - the emphasis on biological therapy operates as a promise of exclusion of the malaise of life. This is a process of naturalization of psychological distress in which the proliferation of diagnostic categories is proportional to the diversity of mental suffering that can be medicated. In this paper, we present some concepts, forged by Freud, as anxiety, helplessness and death drive, as indicators of the possibility of intervening in psychological distress through different perspectives of those who promise the exclusion of evil from life. If evil is a sign of disorder sponsored by the drive that could not enroll in the psychic apparatus, then psychoanalysis includes evil at the heart of the psychic life itself. The latter only is constituted and transformed by the possibility of creating new meanings, new forms of satisfaction for the vital impulse, insistent on excellence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The essence of psychoanalytic theory is a discourse without words", Lacan says in the first class of the Seminar, book 16, From an Other to the other. Where can the paradox of this sentence send us to? First of all, according to Lacan, a signifier cannot represent itself. This takes us, therefore, to the long scope of the expression itself for the signifier proper. There would be, so to speak, an opacity, an inconsistency in the signifier structure itself, which leads us to conclude that there is no closing point of discourse, even more, "there is no universe of discourse". We clinically translate such statement verifying that there will always be what cannot be said. That does not mean taking the analytic discourse as impossible, nor devalue it. It is an impasse that is, above all, a logical-mathematical one. Hence this paper presents the radicality of the logical inconsistency of the Other as a correlate of a call to what Lacan names "spirit of psychoanalysis" when addressing his School. [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]

From the interface between psychoanalysis and culture, this paper aims to raise some considerations about the contemporary debate of the psychoanalytic notion of sexual difference introduced by shifts in the field of sexuality and the challenges they impose on the psychoanalytic area. From the background of the new cartography of sexuality, uses, as main reference, the dialogue between Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek on the status of the notion of sexual difference in psychoanalysis, in order to consider to what extent psychoanalysis bases the constitution of the difference on the binary model and the hierarchical gender division, contributing to the normative maintenance of the sex-gender system or, to what extent the psychoanalytic theory offers a shift from the dimorphic model of sexual difference to a distinct way of thinking the difference, contributing to the understanding of otherness while meaning indetermination and contingency. In this way, explores the interpretations of Butler about some fundamental concepts of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, as the Oedipus complex, and the Žižek's considerations about the reading of Butler. This study final aim is to enhance the dialogue between contemporary authors in order to conduct further psychoanalytic readings, demonstrating the possibility of the psychoanalytic theory of reconsidering and resubmitting in face of new socio-historical questions. [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]

Since Freud, the body assumes a new configuration and sexuality opens up a promising theoretical field of inquiry into the brain. When combined with the theory of self organizing systems, the Freudian concept of drive becomes a useful conceptual tool in Cognitive Science to study the human mind and cognition. This paper focuses on the contributions of the psychoanalytic knowledge and identifies the critical points, limits and possibilities of a potential interdisciplinary in the field of the philosophy of the mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When bone marrow transplant (BMT) is added to the diagnosis of cancer, patients can experience fear, lack of understanding and insecurity. This project's aim was to identify aspects of the emotional status of 7 patients with bone marrow transplant indication. TAT cards 1 and 11 were applied in order to search for the latent aspects in the patients, and a semi-directed interview was then conducted. The use of a psychoanalytica qualitative and referencial methodology was chosen, with the estabilishment of categories encompassing the main aspects brought out in the interviews. TAT cards were analysed separately. It is noticed that fear and hope were a constant in the patient's reports, reinforcing the results from international papers. In conclusion, the pre-transplantation period is a moment of ambiguity and confusion, due to the emotional burden to which the patient is subjected. Thus, psychological counseling is fundamental to an adequate confrontation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]