Abstract

SANDLER, Paulo Cesar. The romantic origins of psycho-analysis: language and its achievement. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2007, vol.30, n.45, pp. 64-69. ISSN 0101-3106.

To ignore our own history is an invitation to re-invent the wheel. Conversely, to know it allows for a deeper grasping psycho-analysis itself - a “practical progeny” of the Enlightenment and Romantic Movements achievements: the looking for underlying patterns to texts, ontogenetic historicity, verbal thought. The study focus on where and how these origins influence the “here and now” of the analytic session. We analysts attempt to reach, beyond the significant and the signifier, the symbol and above all, the processes of symbolization. We look for “that which means other things than itself ”, as observed Gombrich. A clinical case is included in order to display how those origins function in our still-romantic practice, in its staunch defense of the suffering individual, through a deep dive into passions and non-passions - which we call today psycho-analysis.

Keywords : Symbol formation; Enlightenment; Language; Romantic movement; Psychic reality.

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