Abstract

AZOUBEL NETO, David. The psychoanalysis of the primary process: reflections on the metapsychology of pain. Rev. SPAGESP [online]. 2006, vol.7, n.1, pp. 28-43. ISSN 1677-2970.

This essay is based on the reflections Freud developed in 1895, when he wrote his “Project for a Scientific Psychology for Neurologists and Psychologists”. Based on this consideration of pain as a primary process, the author aimed to suggest an extension of Freud’s ideas: a research on the role of pain in the formation of the mental apparatus. Initially, in their incipient state, feelings had the characteristics of pain. It is only through development and evolutionary modifications that they acquired their own characteristics, capable of allowing them a broader identity.

Keywords : Pain; Psychoanalysis; Primary process; Mental apparatus; Metapsychology.

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