A eficácia da cura em psicanálise: Freud – Winnicott – Lacan

Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan

A histeria em Freud e Flaubert

Hysteria in Freud and Flaubert. This article reviews Freud’s course in his texts about hysteria and others related to it, and, following the suggestion of the inventor of psychoanalysis, intends to consider the character of a literary classic, Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”, aiming to point out the structural aspects of hysteria from the course of both, the character already mentioned, and the cons...

The Place of Acting out in Psychoanalysis: from Freud to Lacan

Separation , Death , the Thing , Freud , Lacan , and the Missed Encounter 1

If it still remains possible to constitute cerebrality as a specific regime of events, if it remains possible to show that trauma—as unexpected accident or unforeseen catastrophe—possesses a determining and not merely a triggering power within the psyche, this possibility could only be elaborated at the heart of Freud’s thinking of danger, destruction, and the annihilation of the psyche. It wou...

The Mark, the Thing, and the Object: On What Commands Repetition in Freud and Lacan

In Logique du Fantasme, Lacan argues that the compulsion to repeat does not obey the same discharge logic as homeostatic processes. Repetition installs a realm that is categorically different from the one related to homeostatic pleasure seeking, a properly subjective one, one in which the mark "stands for," "takes the place of," what we have ventured to call "an event," and what only in the mov...