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QUINTELLA, Rogerio. PSYCHOANALYST’S DESIRE AND RESISTANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY POLIS. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2022, vol.34, n.3, pp.441-464.  Epub 02-Ago-2024. ISSN 0103-5665.  https://doi.org/10.33208/pc1980-5438v0034n03a01.

This article aims to ponder the psychoanalyst’s desire and the place of the clinic in the contemporary polis, fundamentally guided by the consumer society in the neoliberal system. We seek to discuss this from the concept of superego and its relationship with consumption today, according to the theoretical inclusion of the concept of economy of jouissance in the field of political economy, as understood by Lacan. Psychoanalytic ethics involves the way a subject deals with the incidence of forms of jouissance and their imperatives facing up to the desire in the consumption experience, which implies the subject of the unconscious in the socio-political field. To consider the place of the psychoanalyst’s desire in this issue, we emphasize Žižek’s thought, for whom the ultimate objective of an analysis is to make the subject resist the superegoic attraction. We aim to sustain that, if the gluttony of the superego is related today with mass consumerism, the psychoanalyst’s desire acts by making this resistance to such an attraction work: he moves towards a bet on this process, capable of producing not only important effects for the subject and those around him, but also effects on the contemporary capitalist polis itself.

Palavras-chave : psychoanalyst’s desire; denial of deprivation; imperative of jouissance; consumer society; capitalist polis.

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