Abstract

MATTOS, Ligia Todescan Lessa. A territory without borders: the borderline. J. psicanal. [online]. 2018, vol.51, n.95, pp. 43-57. ISSN 0103-5835.

According to André Green, borderline patients are today an important part of the psychoanalytic clinic, if not its nucleus. Eating disorders, addictions, compulsive search for body alterations, acting out behavior, would indicate the existence of "new pathologies"? Do the peculiarities of contemporary life have changed patients? Is there a new model of mind requiring a "new psychoanalysis"? Or are the advances of the theoretical and technical knowledge of psychoanalysis that allow us to accept today patients previously considered as "non-analyzable"? The article presents some observations on the psychoanalytic clinic of the so called limit cases, in which distress, loss or separation anxiety predominates, as well as those of intrusion, a kind of clinical work that requires the analyst's flexibility and, at the same time, constant attention to the safeguarding of the analytic function.

Keywords : contemporary psychoanalysis clinic; limit cases; neurosis; psychosis; analytical function.

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