Causality and determination: the problem of the triggering off in psychoanalysis / Causalidade e determinação: o problema do desencadeamento em psicanálise
AUTOR(ES)
Ana Paula Lacôrte Gianesi
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
This work seeks to explore the question of triggering off in psychoanalytic theory by examining some Freudian cases. The theme was conceived as a key clinical aspect which poses for the psychoanalyst the questions of diagnosis and of etiological investigation. In this sense, we highlight that the emergence of symptoms and of psychotic breakdown were particularly important to this work. We verified that since Freud, either the hysterical conversion or the paranoid delirium indicated the direction of the treatment; and raised concerns about the emerging causes of these conditions. In this study the causal dimensions of triggering off was particularly intriguing. To accomplish this investigation, we first drew upon Freuds theories of the psychic causality and proceeded to the study of Jacques Lacan who in a particular manner highlighted Freudians findings and postulated a notion of causality that is central to psychoanalysis and strongly related to the idea of triggering off.
ASSUNTO(S)
psychoanalysis imaginação causality (concept) noção de causalidade imagination ansiedade psicanálise symptoms sintomas anxiety
