Abstract

TRACHTENBERG, Renato. Caesuras and dis-caesuras: the borders of (in) complexity. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2013, vol.47, n.2, pp. 55-66. ISSN 0486-641X.

The author highlights the clinical and theoretical validities of the concept of caesura in Bion, in which one can observe the great importance of the notions of coexistence of mental states and of the transit among them in the human mind. The latter implicate and are implicated by a spectral mental model, fundamental to the comprehension of Bions theory. The author emphasizes the importance of caesura to think and work what he calls the evil complexity, creating the word dis-caesura to express this phenomenon. The paper, by differentiating ethics and morality, also emphasizes the ethic relevance of the Bionian concept of caesura, expressed in the possibilities of an increased tolerance to the differences between the subject and the other, and among the other subjects of the subject itself.

Keywords : Caesura; dis-caesura; complexity; morality; ethics.

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