Abstract

RABELO, Fabiano Chagas  and  MARTINS, Karla Patrícia Holanda. The Uncanny´s Metapsychology and its Place on Psychic Constituition. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 730-748. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.61066.

The article discusses the insertion of the Unheimliche in the development of the model of psychoanalytic psychic apparatus, relating it to some metapsychological concepts that preceded it and others, later, that benefited from its influence. To this end, the theme of psychic constitution is prioritized in its relationship with paramnesia. The concept of narcissism is brought up to question the differences and similarities between the definitions of Uncanny (Unheimliche) and estrangement (Entfremdung). One analyses a Borges short story The other, the freudian article A Memory Disorder in the Acropolis and the text by Tausk Ibsen, Der Apoteker to establish a parallel between literary fiction and the valences of feelings of derealization and desubjectivation in the clinic of neuroses. Winnicott's concept of transitional phenomenon and the problem of otherness that Lacan presents in two moments of his teaching are debated from the link between the concepts of Uncanny and split of the self. In the end, the metapsychological status of the Uncanny is investigated as a particular modality of return of the repressed, which mobilizes the limits of primary repression, promoting a temporary subversion of the boundaries of ego and reality, with consequences for thinking about the differential modes of psychic constitution.

Keywords : uncanny; estrangement; paramnesia; narcissism; psychic constitution.

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