CARMO, Luiz Diego Sacramento do    CHAVES, Wilson Camilo. Freud and the symptom in the introductory conferences: some considerations. Nat. hum. []. 2019, 21, 1, pp.100-119. ISSN 1517-2430.

This paper aims to reunite some aspects brought by Freud in the introductory conferences about psychoanalysis to be articulated with some other aspects of different moments in the psychoanalytic theory. From this, we shall present as a guideline a collection of considerations about the notion of symptom presented in two conferences: "The meaning of symptoms" and "The ways of symptom developing". In these, the symptom as a bearer of a singular and unconscious meaning to be interpreted and the dimension of libidinal satisfaction contained in it will be fundamental aspects in the conduction of this work. We also point out that the methodology consists in a theoretic work guided by the articulation of psychoanalytic concepts with the aim of extracting meaningful contribution from it. After that, we intend to show the essential character of these two conferences for the further study of the symptom notion in psychoanalysis. We will also do a brief articulation with the so called "new symptoms", such as drug addiction, which is so common in current clinical practice.

: introductory conferences; symptom; libido; death drive.

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