Análise pessoal na formação do psicanalista em: Freud, Ferenczi e Lacan/ Personal analysis in psychonalist training in: Freud, Ferenczi e Lacan

Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan

The feud between Freud and Ferenczi over love.

Love, Tennessee Williams remarked, is another four letter word. It is one of the most misunderstood words in life and in psychoanalysis, in health and disease, for a long time an unmentionable taboo among psychoanalysts. Thus the Vocabulaire of Laplanche and Pontalis (1973) contains only the entry “Libido,” as does the original Glossary of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts published by the Amer...

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

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...