The poet and the psychoanalyst
[Comment to Ferreira Gullar’s interview]
Marci Dória Passos*
Abstract: Tension between a poetical language excessively tied to formal rules and the risk of destroying language to the point of eliminating artistic production initiates a possible space for creation. This is the articulation point utilized in order to consider a non-vigorous analytical practice, which applies what is already known by the analyst, who is a mere repetitor of pre-established theorical propositions, and a clinic which is created in each single case, demanding that theory takes place folllowing experience.
Keywords: Ferreira Gullar, language, clinic, art, poetry.
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The mystic’s and the psychoanalyst’s experience according to Bion’s vertex
Odilon de Mello Franco Filho
Abstract: The author’s proposal is to explore the assertion that some mental conditions that permit the access to a mystic experience may be part of psychoanalytical practice. This approximation offers the psychoanalyst the possibility of using elements of some mystics’ discipline to think about the experience of the session, without leveling both situations, or to label psychoanalysis a religious or mystic attitude.
Bion was aware of this approximation, and affirmed that psychoanalytical facts may be adequately expressed taking the model of the mystics’ experience. In doing so, he uses it as a provisional construction to signify facts observed in his experience with the patient. From this methodological approximation, and taking as a model the notion of negativity, faith, and the experience of the unspeakable that may be applied to psychic reality (the unconscious) approach, the author recovers Bion’s contributions to situate psychoanalysis as an experience that is open to what is unknown in each session. Psychoanalysis’ aim is not to decipher the mind, but to place the analysand in contact with its mystery. This contact does not belong to the speech level, but constitutes an emotional experience of transformation experienced in the analytical relationship.
Keywords: sacred, religion, mystic experience, mystic model, negativity, faith, psychic reality, truth.
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The psychoanalytic meeting as an aesthetical experience
Adriana Rotelli Resende Rapeli
Abstract: The author approaches the question of the aesthetical experience, understood as the first psychical inscription and described as the “sensation’s felling”. The aesthetical level carries out the signs of sensorial-psychic transition and it is characterized by primitive mental functioning, although it has possibilities of expansion and sophistication. So, this level of experience can be valued in an evolutionary way. It is also signed that the qualitative gain represented by the aesthetical level is reached intersubjectively, in the way that may happens in the psychoanalytical meeting. And, as a fruit of a relationship with another mind, this initial psychic experience is already considered symbolic. These comprehensions bring evident implications to transference relation’s approach. The inclusion of clinical material and its discussion is used to circumscribe the aesthetical question in the psychoanalytical meeting, forward by theoretic comments.
Keywords: aesthetical experience, symbolization, psychoanalytical meeting, pos-kleinian thought.
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Alterity in psychoanalytic practice
Estela Ribeiro Versiani e Luiz Augusto Celes
Abstract: Guided by the idea that the effectiveness of analysis lies in the fact that it makes a re-cognition of alterity possible, this paper presents a way of understanding this alterity. Starting from Jacques André’s thesis on primary femininity, which is based on Jean Laplanche’s theory of generalized seduction, a way of conceiving the alterity re-cognized in analysis is suggested. This alterity is considered to be composed of three dimensions, namely: another myself, another in myself and the irreducible alterity. Effective interpretation in analysis should thus promote re-cognition of these three aspects of alterity.
Keywords: alterity, another myself, another in myself, originary seduction, primary femininity.
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Repetitive non-verbal behaviors and psychic dimensionality
Sonia Maria Mendes E. Mestriner
Abstract: The author gathers the concepts of psychic dimensionality, self-calming procedure, obsessive act and autistic mode of functioning in order to approach the understanding of certain repetitive non-verbal behaviors. Such behaviors may appear in psychoanalytic sessions, and are often not properly considered by analysts. This work uses session accounts of a client in order to illustrate and discuss those behaviors, and to show the way in which the relationship of the analytical pair has occurred. The behaviors here discussed are sensorial expressions of uni and bidimensional levels of the mind, with the goal of anxiety release and which also operate as means of defense, giving the person a precarious psychic cohesion and a minimum sense of identity. The obsessive defenses, besides constituting functioning typical of neurotic levels of personality, seem also to work in more primitive levels.
Keywords: non-verbal behaviors, psychic dimensionality, self-calming procedures, obsessive acts, autistic modes.
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Mind. Infinite. Inexorable.
Cássia A. N. B. Bruno
Abstract: I have developed some comments on a condition of greater existence, a greater power of which we are part of, which goes beyond individuality and is related to – being in the world, not out of our spontaneous will, but by an inexorable fact. Ways to deal with this situation are more visible through some analysands transference actions. Bion names this feeling as an “urge for existence”.
Keywords: inexorable of the existence, filogenia, anorexia in male, Bion, the feeling of “urges to exist”, silence.
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Taking care of the care taker: Power and psychical suffering in medical residence
Marina Ferreira da Rosa Ribeiro
Maria Luiza Ferreira Forjaz
Abstract: The authors describe the work of a group of residents in urology with the aim of promoting a field for reflection on the medical practice from the psychoanalytic point of view. The group had as one of its objectives enlargement of the subjectivity perception in the doctor -patient relation, adding a touch of sensibility to the clinic eye that is beyond objectivity of the medical consultation. Working on choices mad e from everyday assistances made it possible to valorize the interpersonal relation, developing the ability of diagnosing the patient and not only the disease. The students got familiarized with psychoanalytical concepts, from clinical situations presented to the group. We observe in the choice for the medical profession a fantasy of power, of immunity to pain, to illness and to death, what leads the student in the residence period to go through several narcissistic strokes. A doctor is trained to save, to heal and to serve and in most cases they feel excessively responsible for their patients. Before the sinking of such ideals, limits are experienced as being extreme, causing feelings of unfitness and blame. Collaborating with the residents’ egoistical structure in facing the traumatic situations they shall be exposed to along their professional lives might be of great value in the doctor’s formation.
Keywords: psychic suffering, doctor/patient relation, omnipotence/impotence, medical practice, urology, medical residence.
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On caesura, link and paradox
Adriana Salvitti
Abstract: the concepts of caesura, reversible perspective and link, developed by W. Bion in different moments of his work, are presented in mutual articulation, based on P. B. Talamo’s proposal (1997). Our intention is to favor psychical dynamic observation, as well as certain situations experienced by patient and analyst. Next, two clinical cases are discussed, in order to show that these concepts become evident through an evolution. Caesura, followed by reversible perspective, reveals a paradox which, when tolerated, may give rise to a communication of comprehension and insight.
Keywords: caesura, link, reversible perspective, evolution, paradox.
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Observing the transit of the existence
Thaís Helena Thomé Marques
Abstract: The references proposed by Bion are used by the author who develops considerations regarding to what denominated the “sense of existence”. It proposes some formulations regarding the precariousness of the sense of existence, presenting the idea of a function of the inexistence which being opposed to the meaning of the lack is sustained as a “sense of existence” actively maintained. Those propositions are ideas that flow from what Bion denominated as ideogramatization and work of alfa dream, and they move through the conception of reconstruction of alpha dream screen and/or transformation of beta screen. The author investigates the possibility that the sensorial brings in itself the registration of what could be rescued as significances of the lack. It demonstrates that through her observations and of a clinical case, through which intends to illustrate the transit of the inanimate to the animate and vice-versa, just being possible through the path of dreaming.
Keywords: sense of existence, sense of inexistence, lack.
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Psychoanalytic training: a new evaluation agency
Regina Murat
Carlos Alberto Quilelli Ambrosio
Roberto Bittencourt Martins
Abstract: This article was written for presentation at the XX Brazilian Psychoanalytic Congress, Brasília, November 2005, in the round table “Evaluation of Candidates”. It therefore addresses the issue of evaluation during psychoanalytic training. The authors present evaluation as a natural outcome of activities related to training of psychoanalysts and value auto- as well as hetero-evaluations forming a cross crossing of reciprocal influence between students and teachers, students and supervisors, students and coordinators of the Continuous Evaluation and Monitoring Groups (GAACs), inserted in the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Rio de Janeiro and in psychoanalysis itself. The emphasis of the authors, however, centered upon the Continuous Evaluation and Monitoring Groups (GAACs) considered as the fourth pillar of psychoanalytic training. The functioning of this other evaluation agency that is practiced in these groups was accentuated. Through its theoretical support based on Pichon-Rivière’s concepts, on previous papers by the authors and on dynamic examples of some experiences lived by the authors, they tried to share this experience. The authors sought to differentiate the continuous evaluation and monitoring group from group psychotherapy.
Keywords: psychoanalytic training, GAAC/Continuous Evaluation and Monitoring Group, didatics, training group, evaluation
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A FOREIGN VIEW
Reading in spaces in crisis
Michèle Petit
Translation: Patricia Bohrer Pereira Leite e Claudia do Amaral de Meireles Reis
Abstract: Programs in which reading has an essential place are presently being developed in different places throughout the world, in spaces in crisis – in war situations or repeated violence, of populations’ forced moves or abrupt economic degradations. Numerous professionals (librarians, teachers, social or humanitarian workers, psychologists, psychoanalysts, writers) refer to reading, frequently connected to other cultural activities, in order to help children, adolescents and adults to construct or re-construct themselves and sometimes to support processes of reading and writing acquisition. Setting out from a research that is presently being conducted, some hints are being raised in an attempt to explain the processes that are triggered, and to limit the benefits that might be expected from theses programs in the production of meaning field, in the development of a personal history and in the re-composition of social bonds.
Keywords: reading, spaces in crisis, symbolization, transitional space, reconstruction of meanings, re-composition of social networks.
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