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BARTH, Luís Fernando Barnetche. The metapsychological case: the role of “construction” and “fiction” in psychoanalysis. Psyche (Sao Paulo) [online]. 2008, vol.12, n.22, pp. 139-154. ISSN 1415-1138.

In this paper, the author examines the concept of “construction” used by Freud in the analysis of some of his most known cases and distinguishes it from interpretation as well as from the possibilities of utilization of the concept of “fiction” by psychoanalysis. Parting from the study of memory in psychoanalysis, the author articulates the concepts of construction and fiction as tools for writing metapsychological cases offered to the psychoanalytic community. The transmission of the psychoanalytical knowledge is made through the transfiguration of the revealing traits of a structure collected by the psychoanalytic researcher in a theoretical image.

Palavras-chave : Metapsychological case; Construction; Memory; Fiction; Transfiguration.