SANTOS, Jorge Luís Gonçalves dos    COSTA-MOURA, Fernanda. Castration anxiety and object: anxiety as a limit to psychoanalysis. Estud. pesqui. psicol. []. 2013, 13, 3, pp.922-938. ISSN 1808-4281.

The article discusses Lacan´s views on what Freud considered the ultimate block of psychoanalysis: the castration anxiety , considered as the bedrock [Felsen] on which every treatment must necessarily fail and where theory meets its limit. In order to do so, it approaches Freud´s distinct conceptions of anxiety - the early one, in which anxiety is related to the neurosis of anxiety, which connects anxiety and repression, and finally the turning point put forward by the article Inhibition, Symptom, and Anxiety. Through that exam, the paper tries to reach the heart of Lacan´s contributions, that allow psychoanalysis to go beyond the freudian positions that established a direct link between anxiety and the threat of castration. Conceiving anxiety as the sign, not of castration, but rather, of the imminency of an object eluded from the subject´s field, Lacan is able to point out what is really at stake for the subject facing anxiety in analysis.

: Psychoanalysis; Castration anxiety; Object a; Neurosis.

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