Abstract

NETTO, Sylvia T. P. Pupo. "Hands up: you've lost, playboy!": considerations on mourning and the analysts. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2015, vol.49, n.4, pp. 111-117. ISSN 0486-641X.

The author reflects upon the constant work of mourning required by analysts due to the never ceasing impositions of connection and separation implicated in the psychoanalytical clinic. She weaves a parallel with the poem of Elizabeth Bishop "One art", in which she tries to reduce the impact of losses to a minimum. She then wonders if there is any possibility of softening this impact, through the proposed "disinvestment", or, conversely, when underlining the inevitability of the pain aroused by the absence of the object, the non-anesthesia, she points out the role of one "other" as a founding presence that can be evoked - for it had become a trace. A clinical fragment illustrates how the work of mourning in the analyst during a session lead to the resuming of her clinical listening by allowing the capture of the traumatic by the representational. She concludes, then, that being an analyst demands a disposition to be constantly traumatized.

Keywords : transience; losses; mourning; representation.

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