Abstract

MOHR, Allan Martins. Psychoanalysis, depression and the second death on the Nile. Rev. SBPH [online]. 2013, vol.16, n.2, pp.178-195. ISSN 1516-0858.

This article aims to shed some issues around the Lacanian concept of the second death, referring to the same concept as exploited by the Egyptians in their mythology, to think about the possibility of reading the clinical phenomena of depression from this concept. This work therefore traverses some Freudian ideas about death, Lacan's reflection on the second death, and succinctly bring reflections on the symbolic register, the signifying chain, language, and Egyptian mythology to think briefly about the mechanism of depression. Therefore, it concludes that the psychoanalytic conceptualization of the second death seems a certainty compared with the same concept addressed by the mythology developed by the Egyptians and that this same concept can be used as a reference to think the depression.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Second death; Egyptian mythology; Depression.

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