Psychoanalytic clinic: the mental debility in focus / Clínica psicanalítica: a debilidade mental em questão

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2008

RESUMO

The mental debility is a clinical category which is distinctly defined by two actuations fields: the medicine and the psychoanalysis. From the medical point of view the mental debility concerns to the lowest mental retard level. Mentals retardations are classified in according with results obtained in IQ tests. The differents measures classify the degrees of retardation with variations from light to serious level. The light retardation (mental debility) refers to IQ level between 50 and 70. From the medical point of view the retardation is understood as a pathology of intelligence. On the other hand for psychoanalysis, the mental debility is understood as a psychic position adopted by the subject of the unconscious. On the psychoanalysis concept the mental debility is not a pathology of the intelligence, but a psychopathology explicitated by the subject that doesnt appropriate what says neither what desires. On the psychoanalytic field, the mental debility refers to a subject completely under someone elses requires. This paper emphasizes on the importance for the psychoanalysis to make a mental debility diagnosis through the clinical listening

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psychoanalysis debilidade mental psicologia posição psíquica psicanalise deficientes mentais mental debility psychic position

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