Theory as the analysts internal object and its vicissitudes in the clinical situation : mourning and melancholia as metaphor / A teoria como objeto interno do analista e seus destinos na clínica : luto e melancolia como metáfora

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Relationships established between theories and practices in the psychoanalytic clinical situation are not usually explicitly examined in the theoretical writings of psychoanalysts; such relationships, however, are necessarily implicit to their practices and discourses. The present work intends to investigate the complexities inherent to these relationships, which in our view are not limited to a causal and bidirectional conception. In order to do so, we have referred to concepts from epistemology and, most fundamentally, psychoanalysis itself. Ogdens "A new reading of the origins of object relations theory" has allowed us the consideration of theories as objects liable to receive libidinal cathexes, so that once they are lost, they will need to be mourned by the analyst. Such a loss occurs once the theory stops responding to clinical demands, that is, once it stops supporting the analyst in his contact with patients. Mourning and melancholia have thus served us as a metaphor to investigate the ways in which theories become present in the analyst and, consequently, in the clinical situation, for they engender different internal objects. If the analyst mourns the loss of the theory, it gets incorporated into his subsidiary knowledge, providing thus the bases for traumatic encounters with patients and new theories. If, on the other hand, the analyst cannot mourn, the theory gets then rigidly fixed into the analysts subsidiary knowledge, therefore preventing the clinical situation to come forward in its full traumatic otherness.

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object relations ogden thomas h. psicanálise teoria psicanalítica grief ogden thomas h. psychoanalysis psychoanalytic theory luto relações de objeto

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