Abstract

CHAVES, Liana Pinto. On becoming an author. J. psicanal. [online]. 2012, vol.45, n.82, pp. 59-74. ISSN 0103-5835.

This paper deals with the question of authorship through the examination of the work of the British psychoanalyst Ronald Britton. Its aim is to identify how and when he became an author. Its main thesis is that this happened when he freed himself from the weight of the influence of ancestral figures and authors in his trajectory as a psychoanalyst. The background of the argument is the working through of the depressive position and of the Oedipal situation, which happen simultaneously. A particular path was chosen in this very rich production in order to sketch a brief intellectual biography of Britton. Its point of departure was a particular paper that he wrote with important clinical discoveries, but still timid in terms of authorship - autonomy of thought. Such autonomy was gradually conquered and this “defective” paper became in a few more years one of the most important papers of post-Kleinian psychoanalysis, by now free of distortions. Clinical material inspired by Britton’s ideas was presented as illustration.

Keywords : Ronald Britton; Authorship; The oedipal situation; Phratry; Theoretical lineage.

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