Abstract

WINOGRAD, Monah  and  MENDES, Larissa da Costa. Which body for psychoanalysis: A short essay on the body´s problem in the work of Freud. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2009, vol.11, n.2, pp. 211-223. ISSN 1516-3687.

The freudian theory does not present a concept of the "Body", although it is there as an implicit problem. But which is the that Body psychoanalysis deals with, after all? The objective of this article is to demonstrate that Freud did not consider the Body only in its symbolic and imaginary aspects, having always taken in account the fact that the Body is also substance, being its biology equally determinant, in greater or minor degree, of what happens in the individual. To demonstrate it, three thematics are investigated: (1) the concept of drive, understood as a point of connection between the Body as an organism and the Body as a subject, (2) the constitution of the Ego on a corporal basis that determines it and (3) the hysterical symptoms and the notion of somatic complacency, which introduces the consideration of the organic and biological materiality of the Body in the etiology of the conversive symptoms.

Keywords : Body; Drive; I; Complacency; Psychoanalysis.

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