Abstract

CORREA, Fernanda Silveira. Contributions of neuroses and psychoses to the understanding of the hominization process and the history of human species. J. psicanal. [online]. 2015, vol.48, n.89, pp. 79-92. ISSN 0103-5835.

According to Freud, Psychoanalysis may claim a higher place among those sciences that make an effort to reconstruct the earliest and most obscure stages of mankind. The reason is that neuroses and psychoses, objects of the psychoanalytic study, have kept soul antiques. Dispositions to neuroses permitted Freud to conceive the genealogy of sexual instinct: its removal from the biological sexual function (anxiety hysteria), its satisfaction ability in fantasy (conversion hysteria) and its satisfaction ability in increasing power, self-assertion and dominion over the world and over others (obsessional neurosis). Dispositions to psychoses allowed Freud to conceive the genealogy of guilt and social life: the pleasure in the submission to castration by sexualizing the pain (schizophrenia), the sexual pleasure with the equal one and founded on the hatred towards the different one (paranoia), and the pleasure in the hatred of the self (mania/melancholy). In this paper, the author goes through all the stages of this reconstruction.

Keywords : Freud, Sigmund; phylogenesis; ontogenesis; psychopathology; sexual instinct.

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