O presente trabalho articula o pensamento de Emmanuel Lévinas e a clínica psicanalítica. Para tal articulação, o autor serve-se do conceito de inspiração, tomando o pensamento de Lévinas como um conhecimento tácito e subsidiário a psicanálise. Ao colocar o pensamento de Lévinas nessa posição, várias questões podem ser formuladas à clínica psicanalítica. Sobretudo, questões relacionadas às dimensões éticas, seja naquilo que se refere à posição do analista frente ao analisando, seja na sua posição frente às construções teóricas. Para encaminhar tais questões, o autor se servirá de alguns textos freudianos, dentre eles, Construções em Análise, Estudos sobre Histeria e Projeto para uma psicologia científica, ora para exemplificar tais questões, ora para contrastar o pensamento de Freud ao pensamento de Lévinas. / This paper articulates the thought of Emmanuel Lévinas and psychoanalytic clinic. For this joint, the author makes use of the concept of inspiration, taking the thought of Lévinas as a tacit and alternative knowledge to psychoanalysis. By putting the thought of Lévinas in this position, several questions may be made to the psychoanalytic clinic. Above all, questions related to the ethical dimensions, some concerns the position of the analyst in relation to analyzing, others about the position of analyst in relation to theoretical constructions. To forward these questions, the author will use some Freudian texts, among them, Constructions in Analysis, Studies on Hysteria and Project for a scientific psychology, sometimes to illustrate these questions, sometimes to contrast the ideas of Freud to the thought of Lévinas.

O presente trabalho articula o pensamento de Emmanuel Lévinas e a clínica psicanalítica. Para tal articulação, o autor serve-se do conceito de inspiração, tomando o pensamento de Lévinas como um conhecimento tácito e subsidiário a psicanálise. Ao colocar o pensamento de Lévinas nessa posição, várias questões podem ser formuladas à clínica psicanalítica. Sobretudo, questões relacionadas às dimensões éticas, seja naquilo que se refere à posição do analista frente ao analisando, seja na sua posição frente às construções teóricas. Para encaminhar tais questões, o autor se servirá de alguns textos freudianos, dentre eles, Construções em Análise, Estudos sobre Histeria e Projeto para uma psicologia científica, ora para exemplificar tais questões, ora para contrastar o pensamento de Freud ao pensamento de Lévinas. / This paper articulates the thought of Emmanuel Lévinas and psychoanalytic clinic. For this joint, the author makes use of the concept of inspiration, taking the thought of Lévinas as a tacit and alternative knowledge to psychoanalysis. By putting the thought of Lévinas in this position, several questions may be made to the psychoanalytic clinic. Above all, questions related to the ethical dimensions, some concerns the position of the analyst in relation to analyzing, others about the position of analyst in relation to theoretical constructions. To forward these questions, the author will use some Freudian texts, among them, Constructions in Analysis, Studies on Hysteria and Project for a scientific psychology, sometimes to illustrate these questions, sometimes to contrast the ideas of Freud to the thought of Lévinas.

This research aims to investigate the boundaries of the psychoanalytic field that sustains the ambulatory mental health service in childhood, named Early Childhood Psychoanalysis: conjunct parents-child interventions , having the principal theoretical and clinical articulators, which are the psychoanalytic method, the transference and the metapsychological formulation of the subjective constitution. We have accomplished a hermeneutics research and through this investigative approach we looked for questions that enabled us to create and articulate new significances throughout the exercise of signifying the vivid experience, investigating the clinical processes and seeking supports for this practice. So, we outlined our route through the theoretical research, the conceptions of the process of subjective constitution of a child, language and symptom. Through the methodology research, we present the method of conjunct attendance and discuss the possibility of the psychoanalytic method being the support for the conjunct attendance, and also, the issue of the meaning and representation of infantile clinical psychoanalytic. The analytical research of this clinical model brought the issue of the transference, its impasses and characteristics of the clinic in the early childhood, and also, the discussion about the communication processes in the conjunct attendance setting. Finally, through the Clinical Research, two cases were analyzed. As a result of this trajectory we realized considerations on the naming this model of care, suggesting the switch to Psychoanalytic Attendance Parent-Child. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal investigar os balizadores do campo psicanalítico que sustentam o serviço ambulatorial em saúde mental infantil Psicanálise da primeira infância: intervenções conjuntas pais-crianças . Os principais articuladores teóricoclínicos foram: o Método Psicanalítico, a Transferência e a formulação Metapsicológica da Constituição Subjetiva. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa hermenêutica, que, por meio da postura investigativa da pesquisadora, buscou-se elaborar questionamentos que possibilitassem o exercício de criação e articulação de novos sentidos a partir da experiência vivida neste modelo de Atendimento Conjunto. Desta forma, o percurso desenvolvido deu-se através da Investigação Teórica, Metodológica, Clínica e do Campo Analítico. O capítulo II aborda as concepções do processo de constituição subjetiva, de criança, linguagem e sintoma. A Investigação Metodológica, com a questão sobre a possibilidade do Método Psicanalítico ser a sustentação dos Atendimentos Conjuntos, é discutida no capítulo III. O conceito de transferência e suas especificidades na clínica da primeira infância e os processos da comunicação nos Atendimentos Conjuntos são abordados no capítulo sobre a Investigação do Campo Analítico. Por fim, a análise de dois casos clínicos ilustra a Investigação Clínica. Como resultado desta trajetória, realizamos a sugestão da troca do nome para Atendimento Psicanalítico Conjunto Pais-Crianças, sustentando esta prática no Campo da Psicanálise. / Mestre em Psicologia Aplicada

O trabalho de análise não se encerra quando se encerra a sessão analítica. Não se encerra nem para o paciente - que segue em análise - nem para o analista que, a partir das sessões, pode seguir o trabalho na direção da construção do caso clínico. No entanto, o relato das sessões não faz o caso. Dessa inferência, surge nossa questão: o que é essa operação de construção realizada pelo analista que viabiliza essa transformação? E, mais ainda, quais os efeitos que essa construção possibilita? Dessa maneira, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a construção do caso clínico em psicanálise, de maneira a compreender essa operação e seus efeitos. Deste primeiro objetivo, desdobram-se três objetivos específicos, que correspondem aos objetivos de cada capítulo de nossa organização. O método utilizado foi a investigação da bibliografia específica da área. De cada capítulo, que organizam nossos resultados, temos que: 1) a noção de construção em psicanálise é uma noção que embasa a construção dos casos clínicos, 2) a noção de caso clínico em psicanálise corresponde a um depósito de tradições específicas, tornando o caso clínico escrito para publicação um gênero literário e 3) a construção do caso clínico em psicanálise pode ser organizada didaticamente em objetivos, funções e elementos que a compõem. Elaboramos ainda um quarto capítulo em que a experiência clínica é discutida, com base em nossos achados, a fim de elencar alguns efeitos clínicos que as noções investigadas implicam no tratamento e na clínica psicanalítica. Concluímos que, para que um paciente em psicanálise possa ser chamado de caso, é preciso que o material clínico passe pelo trabalho de construção, realizado por um analista, ou seja, um rearranjo dos elementos recolhidos das sessões analíticas e que possibilita a construção do caso. Apesar dos diversos objetivos, elementos e articulações que elencamos, possíveis na construção de um caso clínico, é dado que a maneira de construir é singular e é determinada pela prática de cada um e pelo destinatário da construção. No entanto, concluímos que se há uma construção, é possível um analista comunicar o caso para além de seu relato, trazendo elementos 10 clínicos, noções e conceitos psicanalíticos que formam a essencial dialética entre teoria e prática / The psychoanalytical work does not stop at the end of the psychoanalytical session. It does not end either for the patient - who keeps on going under analysis - nor for the analyst who, from the sessions, can continue the work in the direction of the construction of the clinical case. However, the report of the sessions does not mean the case. From this inference, our question arises: what is this construction operation carried out by the analyst that makes this transformation viable? And, what\'s more, what effects does this construction implies? Thus, this research aims to investigate the construction of the clinical case in psychoanalysis, in order to understand this operation and its effects. From this first objective, three specific objectives are defined, which correspond to the objectives of each chapter of our organization. The method used was the investigation of the specific bibliography of the area. From each chapter, which organizes our results, we have: 1) the notion of construction in psychoanalysis is a notion that bases the construction of clinical cases, 2) the notion of clinical case in psychoanalysis corresponds to a deposit of specific traditions, what makes the clinical case a literary genre and 3) the construction of the clinical case in psychoanalysis can be organized in objectives, functions and elements that compose it. We also elaborated a fourth chapter in which clinical experience is discussed, based on our findings, in order to list some clinical effects that have the construction of the case for the psychoanalytic clinic. We conclude that for a patient in psychoanalysis to be called a case, it is necessary that the clinical material goes through the construction work performed by an analyst, that is, a rearrangement of the elements collected from the analytical sessions and that allows the construction of the case. Despite the stated objectives of building the case, the way of building is unique and is determined by the practice of each and the recipient of the construction. However, if there is a construct, it is possible for an analyst to communicate the case rather than a report, bringing up psychoanalytical clinical elements, notions e concepts that make the constant dialogue and dialectic between theory and practice

[pt] Os quadros da chamada clínica da atualidade abarcam um leque heterogêneo de padecimentos como, por exemplo, anorexias, bulimias, drogadicções, escarificações, síndrome do pânico, bem como os casos-limite ou borderline reunidos sob a designação de “sofrimentos narcísicos”. Uma das inspirações para esta nomenclatura nosográfica tem como origem a expressão francesa souffrances identitaires-narcissiques – sofrimentos narcísicos identitários – cunhada pelo psicanalista francês René Roussillon. Tais sofrimentos impõem à clínica psicanalítica uma série de impasses e desafios que interrogam o trabalho analítico, em particular os dispositivos clínicos. Diante desta constatação, esta tese pretende investigar, na literatura psicanalítica – incluídos casos e vinhetas clínicas – possíveis recursos clínicos ao trabalho analítico com esses quadros. Para isto, a tese está dividida em duas partes, tendo maior destaque a segunda, em função de seu objetivo. Na primeira, que fornecerá subsídios teórico-clínicos à segunda, são localizadas as principais problemáticas dos casos em questão, as quais giram em torno de seu ponto de origem – a ocorrência de traumas precoces patogênicos. A segunda e principal parte da tese é dedicada a investigar dispositivos ao trabalho analítico cujas características possam vir a coadunar-se às problemáticas levantadas na Primeira Parte. São explorados o recurso da regressão clínica, segundo as contribuições de Michael Balint e Donald Woods Winnicott, bem como um conjunto de dispositivos analíticos apresentados em diferentes publicações de René Roussillon para o atendimento da clínica com os casos em questão. Os recursos apresentados são atravessados e fundamentados por uma escuta polifônica e polimórfica, que, por sua vez, contempla uma série de contribuições apresentadas por esse autor, como aquelas da pulsão mensageira e do registro mimo-gesto-postural. Ao final, a tese busca indicar a ampliação de um desses dispositivos apresentados pelo autor francês. / [en] The pictures of the so-called clinic of the present time encompass a heterogeneous range of ailments such as anorexias, bulimias, drug addictions, scarification, panic syndrome, as well as borderline cases reunited under the designation of narcissistic sufferings. One of the inspirations for this nosographic nomenclature has as its origin the French expression souffrances identitaires-narcissiques– narcissistic identity sufferings – coined by the French psychoanalyst René Roussillon. These sufferings impose on the psychoanalytic clinic a series of impasses and challenges that interrogate the analytical work, especially its clinical devices. In view of this substantiation, this thesis intends to investigate, in the psychoanalytic literature – including clinical cases and vignettes – possible clinical resources to the analytical work with these pictures. For this, the thesis is divided into two parts, the second being more prominent, according to its objective. In the first one, which will provide theoretical and clinical subsidies to the second, the main problems of the cases in question are located, which revolve around their point of origin – the occurrence of early pathogenic traumas. The second and main part of the thesis is devoted to investigating devices for analytical work whose characteristics may be consistent with the problems raised in Part One. The resources of clinical regression are explored according to the contributions of Michael Balint and Donald Woods Winnicott, as well as a set of analytical devices presented in different publications by René Roussillon to attending the clinic with the cases in question. The resources presented are crossed and grounded by a polyphonic and polymorphic listening, which, in turn, contemplates a series of contributions presented by this author, such as those of the messenger drive and the mimo-gesture-postural register. In the end, the thesis seeks to indicate the enlargement of one of these devices presented by the French author.

The purpose of this essay is to perform a comparative psychoanalytic reading of The Great Gatsby (1925) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) in terms of the titular characters’ narcissistic behavior. My claim is that Jay Gatsby and Dorian Gray can be seen as different depictions of narcissism. Literary critics in previous research characterized Gatsby and Gray as narcissists, but, there has not been a comparison between the two with focus on their narcissism. Gatsby and Gray display crucial differences which suggests that they portray narcissism in different ways. Theodore Millon identified four subtypes of the original narcissistic personality in order to better identify different types of narcissists. My aim is to use his subtypes to identify, and provide the causes and effects of Gatsby’s and Gray’s particular narcissistic behavior. My analysis indicates that Gatsby can be seen as a fictional illustration of the unprincipled and compensatory narcissist while Gray can be viewed as a fictional characterization of the amorous narcissist.

This essay focuses on the alienation experienced by Rusty-James in S.E. Hinton’s Rumble Fish (1975). It more specifically centers on the causes of his alienation and how the alienation is illustrated in the novel. The analysis shows that the alienation Rusty-James experiences is caused partly by socioeconomic factors; for example his lack of hope for the future is closely connected to the fact that he belongs to a low socioeconomic class. In addition, there are also psychological factors, for example a childhood trauma. The alienation and its causes are mainly illustrated through the symbolism of the featured Siamese fighting fish and how Rusty-James’ relationships are depicted.

M.A. / The objective of this thesis is to examine emerging themes around masculinity from within an eclectic psychoanalytic framework. In order to achieve the objective, the historical development of psychoanalytic theories on the male gender role are briefly examined. Thereafter, the thesis examines the eclectic psychoanalytic theories of masculinity proposed by Chodorow (1989, 1995) and Hudson and Jacot (1991). An investigation into the emerging themes around masculinity generated by the theories of Chodorow (1989, 1995) and Hudson and Jacot (1991) is then undertaken. The conclusion is that the theories of Chodorow (1989, 1995) and Hudson and Jacot (1991) share an eclectic psychoanalytic approach. The most important common themes in the development of masculinity, are identified as being the relevance of the pre-Oedipal years; the link between the development of the self and the formation of gender identity; and the relationship between psychoanalysis and social theory in the development of masculinity. The role of the mother is also explored in terms of her contribution to the development of masculinity and the maintenance of a gender bias.

Eudora Welty's short story "Flowers for Marjorie" appears in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, her first volume of collected stories published in 1941. Since the story's publication, literary scholars have interpreted the protagonist's murder of his wife, and the unusual events that follow, in terms of somatic realities that inform the text. This thesis is a psychoanalytic rereading/rewriting of "Flowers for Maijorie" that attempts to analyze its text as a possible dream narrative. By psychoanalytically rereading/rewriting the narrative in this story as a possible dream narrative, this thesis will attempt to demonstrate how the reader might experientially break through its previous resistance to interpretation, which should encourage a better understanding of the story's narrative ambiguities. The originality of this examination lies in its detailed analysis of the story's text from a psychoanalytic economy, thus providing perhaps the most detailed analysis of its text to date.

Thesis advisor: Stephen Pfohl / This work inquires about the subjectivity construction individuals perform in our contemporary media culture. It examines the structure of believing that can be inferred from the narrative elaboration of beliefs exerted in social conversations when pop-media related to spirituality or transcendency are used as inputs for conversation. For this purpose, I investigate the consumption of three films that triggered for their audiences intense controversies that included topics belonging to the blurry crossroad where spirituality, science, and religion intersect: What The Bleep do We (k)now!? (USA 2004), The Da Vinci Code (USA 2006), and The Passion of the Christ (USA 2004). My approach departs from the sociology of spirituality perspective, and draws on some insights developed by ritual studies, sociology of religion, social psychoanalysis, consumer studies, and visual studies. Based on a multi-method strategy of inquiry, formal film analysis, focus and discussion groups, and interview data collected from the audience, this dissertation finds that the burgeoning of a media driven popular culture spirituality in Mexico is creating a wave of Pop-Esotericism. As a rational narrative with consumption and conversational drives, Pop-Esotericism is not only a resonant media-reference, but also constitutes a pre-text in the construction of ephemeral and collective conversational spaces wherein the belief system is engaged and refurnished. To give a full account on the pop-esoteric phenomenon and on overall contemporary belief systems, I propose a theoretical model aimed to uncover the dynamics and strategies we engage to articulate spirituality, identity, and reality in our current global media context. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Sociology.