Abstract

IENSEN, Silvio Augusto Lopes  and  MACEDO, Mônica Medeiros Kother. Impasses and scope of psychoanalysis: the entrepreneurship of contemporary analysts. Contextos Clínic [online]. 2018, vol.11, n.1, pp. 106-121. ISSN 1983-3482.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4013/ctc.2018.111.09.

This is a qualitative study of psychoanalysts with extensive clinical experience and scientific research articles in the field of Psychoanalysis. It has been intended to explore the effects of contemporary clinic demands in participant's clinical practice, using semi-structured interviews, and also their conceptions of Psychoanalysis actual situation. The obtained data was studied using the Content Analysis method and resulted in the structure of four Final Categories: Incompleteness and openness of Psychoanalysis: the value of Freud's legacy; Modern clinical Psychoanalysis: work demands to psychoanalysts; Psychoanalysis' gold and; the last one, Confronting the discontents of Psychoanalysis: risks and potentials. The findings of this study enabled us to define the creative work of psychoanalysts facing clinical impasses as entrepreneurship and allow to designate as contemporary those professionals who, committed to the essence of Freudian legacy, concern and create before clinical questions, producing, therefore, knowledge about Psychoanalysis.

Keywords : psychoanalytical clinic; contemporary analyst; Psychoanalysis; entrepreneurship.

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