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Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise

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MONDRZAK, Viviane Sprinz. Psychoanalysis in times of excitement: beyond sensorialism. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2011, vol.45, n.3, pp.25-31. ISSN 0486-641X.

Taking the ideas of Türcke as a stimulus for a free reflection, this commentary focused on some aspects of Occidental culture nowadays, including the role of psychoanalysis in this panorama. The central axis was placed around the role of reason in modernism and its idealization as a source of answers, a part previously played by religious thought. The breaking of the myth of reason makes us more humble, with a clearer notion of the limits of our knowledge. But, at the same time, defenses against the breach in omnipotence arise, using resources enabled by current technological development. There is the discussion of aspects related to the challenges which psychoanalysis, as part of modernist Western thinking, must face in the process of integrating changes without losing its essence.

Keywords : post-modernity; reason; sensorial; symmetrical and asymmetrical logic.

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