Abstract

SACRAMENTO, Nelio. Furious Max. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2016, vol.50, n.3, pp. 120-130. ISSN 0486-641X.

This paper reports a psychoanalytic attending of a twelve-year-old boy who presented with a pretty complicated clinical condition, and exhibited a very destructive behavior. That behavior was due to a primitive psychic form of functioning. This psychoanalytic case study describes a clinical situation with an initial stage of "war" which is followed by a stage of "truce". In other words, the psychoanalyst's ability to survive (or overcome) the initial ferocity has enabled the patient's transition from an attitude which was representing the height of his sadism, and was determined by the functioning of the psychotic part of his personality, to another attitude in which the development of the thought-thinking apparatus has been observed, and it shows the neurotic part of his personality. That patient's clinical change allows us to theorize about the existing connection between knowledge instinct and sadism. This connection depends on containing the manifest destructiveness as we may realize when the psychoanalyst is able to handle his (or her) own countertransference.

Keywords : transference; turbulence; the height of sadism; thought-thinking apparatus.

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