Abstract

LIBERMANN, Zelig. Current Diseases or Current Psychoanalysis?. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2010, vol.44, n.1, pp. 41-49. ISSN 0486-641X.

The text questions whether the so-called "current diseases" are a prerogative of contemporaneity, beginning by systemizing the concept of current diseases in three areas (symptomatic, metapsychological and sociological). Showing that the same nosologic sets of symptoms have been present at other times in the history of humankind, the author proposes that contemporaneity could be attributed to psychoanalysis, which, throughout its existence, has undergone theoretical and technical additions that allowed access to areas of non-representation in the human mind. The author also shows that, although we are used to thinking of such developments in psychoanalysis as mostly being connected to post-Freudian authors, such as Melanie Klein, Bion and Winnicott, to mention only the most distinct, the author believes that we may also find, in Freud’s work, sketches of those psychic zones which are short of representation. Therefore, in this paper, before approaching some transformations of psychoanalysis which make it more attuned with current times, the author will try to demonstrate some theoretical and technical assumptions from Freud’s work which, in his opinion, contributed to the current stage of psychoanalysis.

Keywords : current diseases; repetition compulsion; Freud’s structural theory; primary identification; disavowal; splitting of the ego.

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