Abstract

MARCHON, Paulo. The disconcerted psychoanalyst and his memories: if regrets could kill.... Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2016, vol.50, n.3, pp. 15-31. ISSN 0486-641X.

The author writes about the adventures and misadventures he has lived with patients throughout his job activities in psychoanalysis, since the early years as a candidate, and during his continued training. He chooses the expression "If regrets could kill..." as the main title for the series of clinical vignettes that are presented. However, the author gives special consideration to two patients. He emphasizes the case of a half abandoned boy, and the case of a girl who was wrongly blamed for seducing her father by her own mother. Even since it happened, this female patient has adopted a masculinized appearance that will end up being undone (even somatically) by psychoanalysis, which reminds us a Fellini's movie. In that movie, the underground excavations of Rome only have allowed a slight view of images in which pigments have faded by being exposed to the atmospheric air. In that same way, the author explains what would happen with those images the patient built under the Oedipal impact: they would be undone by being exposed to "the oxygen of psychoanalysis", and they would be replaced by more authentic, feminine images. In the end of this paper, the author adds a review of that case. In the review, the author makes a consideration: if he really believed in psychoanalysis by that time, he could have encouraged the patient to trust the extraordinary changes she had achieved in her psychoanalytic treatment, such as her breast development. Therefore, she might have given up of plastic surgery due to psychoanalysis.

Keywords : not giving up of the patient; charitas; faith in psychoanalysis; priority for interpretation; embarrassment; review.

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