Abstract

WINOGRAD, Monah. The double potentiality of the irrepresentable and the necessary negativity: trauma and death instinct. Tempo psicanal. [online]. 2018, vol.50, n.2, pp. 215-244. ISSN 0101-4838.

This article analyses, from a literature review and theoretical articulations, the double potentiality of the unrepresented, of negativity and of emptiness over the psyche, that at the same time points out a limit of the psychic apparatus, lances it for work, contributing for subjective constitution and differentiation. The direction chosen here favors the idea that what is taken in the first place by the psyche as an obstacle, impassible of mental digestion, at a second moment can turn out to be a motor of surpassingness that will engender a new limit. This conception can be deducted from the own way that psyche functions, because if in one hand there can be a circumstantial limit of processing endogenous and exogenous stimulation that reaches the psychic apparatus, in the other hand, through compulsion repetition mechanism, for example, the effort of psychic processing operates in an interminable way. The different models that the concept of trauma can be thought through will serve as a conducting wire to analyze the effects and psychic destinies of the unrepresented, as well as to articulate these ideas with the concepts of repetition and death instinct.

Keywords : unrepresented; negativity; repetition; death instinct; trauma.

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