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Art has always been an object of study and performance tool for Psychology professionals in Brazil. In order to increase the knowledge on this relationship, the present study aims to characterize as Art has been used by psychology professionals in the country. The method used was the bibliographical and exploratory research in databases on production of scientific papers on the use Art by Psychology in Brazil from 2004 to 2014. 318 abstracts from six categories of analysis of articles that had been analyzed were selected: year of publication, type of study, theoretical references, artistic expression type, field in Psychology and objective of the work. After the analysis it was concluded that, in Brazil, there is a predominance of theoretical and epistemological work in literary and visual arts, based on psychoanalytic theory, aimed at theoretical / conceptual expansion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the notions of the unconscious that emerges from Freud's first texts - which, published between 1888-1893, belongs to the pre-psychoanalytic era. To this end, it establishes the different meanings that the notion of unconscious assumes, relating them with the diverse authors and traditions, which served as a source for the Freudians thought or which preceded him. Three different models of unconscious are identified: the cognitive one, the one resulting from the division of consciousness and the romantic one, all of which simultaneously to the emphasis given to the psychological approach of the pathological phenomena of hysteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to investigate, under the lens of psychoanalysis, the (re) construction of the self in old age. The autobiographical writing points to a poetic and esthetic of the self while building itself, and allows the subject seeks in its history tools to re-enroll in the present. Another highlight is the relation of the elderly with time. The perception of the finitude of life emphasizes the feeling of helplessness and distress. The remembrance may arise as a way to deal with such distress. We conclude that the subject poiesis enabled by the writing of itself might help him to deal with the present and projecting himself into the future. This can (re) open ways for a reconstruction of the social and symbolic place of the elder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective behind this article is to give an understanding of the cultural relationship of melancholia and depression through a psychoanalysis perspective. From a Freudian standpoint, melancholia is a form of depression and therefore a symptom that can be found in any psychiatric structure. By creating a category for narcissistic psychoneuroses Freud brings to the fore the inefficiency found in the neurotic model for the understanding of melancholia. The authors propose a narcissistic-melancholic model for an understanding into contemporary pathologies. It is hereby noted that both melancholia as well as depression can be seen as pathologies, as much as the stand point of the individual when faced with pressure from a society concerning its narcissist nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the changes that the notion of the unconscious went through in Freud's first works due to the introduction of the concept of repression. Based on the model of the division of the consciousness taken from the first dynamic psychiatry, Freud introduces significant changes on the understanding of the mechanisms that create the "second consciousness" and their pathologic action. He also determinates the sexual character of the material that originates the unconscious. This article also shows how the change in the therapeutic techniques and the formulation of the concept of resistance lead Freud to abandon the model of the division of the consciousness and to conceive the first psychological model of psychoanalytic history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to articulate the sense of humor and old age from a psychoanalytic perspective. Today's society, marked by the spectacle and the cult of beauty and youth, reaffirms the three sources of psychological distress discussed by Freud. In the present context, the elderly is almost in a place of non-existent. The elderly is still regarded as a person who existed in the past, made his own psychosocial pathway and now only expects the moment of death. Thus, old people are released in the past to revisit it through their memories, but without the possibility of re-articulate and re-launch themselves in the future. Furthermore, the current association between old age with decrepitude withdraws from the elderly the possibility of elaboration of future projects and has an impact in their psychic dynamics. Given this, three psychic styles portray the way the elderly cope and manage this impasse: depression, paranoia and mania. However, there are alternative ways to confront the finitude of life and rescue his place in existence. One such form is ironic humor that has as focus a look inward and outward. These ironic looks can provoke laughter in relation to ones' own problems, but also boost the individual to face reality and move on. Bringing the concept of ironic humor to concepts already developed by post-Freudian psychoanalysts that have studied the aging process is a challenge. Erikson with his concept of wisdom is among these authors. This psychosocial force also involves a double look and seems to walk along the ironic humor as an alternative way to experience old age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to go through the history of the subjectivity in the Occident from the theme "the care of the self", according to Michel Foucault. The proposal is to debate the subjective processes in the literary studies, and it has as objective to present the invention of the care of the self in the Plato's dialogue Alcibiades, its transformations into some literary and philosophic works, especially its meanings in the literary work Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. We discuss how the dandyism in the 19th Century could represent a second golden age of history of the care of the self, and we also question if it could represent a root of contemporary subjectivity. In the Antiquity period, the care of the self is a work of the character to improve himself, and, this way, to venture himself in the politics life and take control of power and destiny of the polis. In early 19th Century, the objective of the care of the self will be the individual fulfillment of a wish: to be part of the Parisian Nobility and take in his hands his own destiny. The dandy character is a model of subject which is encouraged to govern himself in order to be free, instead of having to cooperate with his own subjection. However , we interpret in Balzac a "degraded" way of the care of the self, in relation to the Socratic model, once the very socio-political context is "degraded". In the perspective of our study, we consider the literary text a relevant way of representation and production of subjectivity which has to be discussed with studies of subjectivity of human sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]