Abstract

WONSOSKI, Wanessa  and  DOMINGUES, Eliane. Georges Devereux: A Freudian Psychoanalyst?. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 1-12. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v21i2.e10957.

Freudian psychoanalysis is one of the main foundations of ethnopsychoanalysis, a discipline founded by Georges Devereux (1908-1985). Devereux considered himself an "authentically classic psychoanalyst", according to Freud's "major" conceptions, but with divergences concerning some conceptions considered as minor by him. What were these "minor" conceptions of Freud that Devereux disagreed with? What are Devereux's contributions to psychoanalytic theory? These are the questions that guide this article. The concepts addressed, targets of disagreements or developments by Devereux, which will be presented here are: unconscious; Oedipus complex and latency period; superego and ideal of the self; and the death drive. From the reading of Devereux's essential texts, we identified that the author adopts the Freudian propositions of the universality of the psyche and the Oedipus complex, but disagrees with the existence of the death drive and the universality of the latency period, and seems to indicate a constitutive distinction between what is of the order of arbitrary interdiction (superego) and what is of the order of the model function (ideal of the self). Furthermore, Devereux expands Freud's formulations regarding psychosexual development by reflecting on the incestuous, aggressive, and cannibalistic drives of parents towards their children.

Keywords : Georges Devereux; Sigmund Freud; ethnopsychoanalysis; psychoanalysis; theory.

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