Abstract

MENDES, Eliana Rodrigues Pereira. 125 years of psychoanalysis and the ethics of the psychoanalyst. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2023, n.59, pp.75-82.  Epub Feb 14, 2025. ISSN 0100-3437.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2175-3482.n59a08.

The author presents an overview of human cultural evolution, starting from the beginnings of humanity, until the appearance of psychoanalysis, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It introduces the figure of Sigmund Freud, the creator of Psychoanalysis, and the trajectory of this new knowledge, which brings to light the instance of the unconscious. She also talks about the main Freudian works, reaching Jacques Lacan, in the 20th century, who rereads Freud. It also discusses the concept of Ethics, emphasizing that Psychoanalysis has its own ethics, which is the ethics of the subject of the unconscious, the ethics of saying this subject’s truth. Finally, she highlights the role of the analyst in society and the various openings that Psychoanalysis has brought to human beings.

Keywords : Cultural evolution; Psychoanalysis and its trajectory; Subject of the unconscious; Ethics of psychoanalysis.

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