Abstract

CAMPOS, Érico Bruno Viana; DE MENEZES, Lucianne Sant´Anna  and  BOCCHI, Josiane Cristina. Psychoanalysis and helplessness towards today's values and ideals crisis. Est. Inter. Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.11, n.3, suppl.1, pp. 4-27. ISSN 2236-6407.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/2236-6407.2020v11n3suplp04.

Psychoanalysis has privileged the concept of helplessness to weave fundamental ontological and ethical considerations about human beings, constituting an important operator to reflect on subjective conditions of contemporary sociability, marked by a transition in normative values and ideals supported by modern institutions. This article aims to bring a reflection on this essential operator based on three complementary axes for the consideration of suffering: (1) the concept of sublimation as a drive destination; (2) the conception of work as a condition of psychic elaboration and creation of the social bond; (3) the limits and conditions of the diagnostic reason when considering psychological suffering. It is concluded that the deepening of the understanding of the sublimatory work on the drives, addressing their effects simultaneously in the individual and collective dimensions, is a possible way to contribute towards the constitution of integrative social bonds and propositions of new ideals for today's culture.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; helplessness; sublimation; labour; mental health.

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