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From metapsychologys unconscious to clinical dispositive: a Freuds institutional analysis of discourse

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Author(s):
Felipe Martins Afonso
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Marlene Guirado; Jose Leon Crochik; Cesar Eduardo Gamboa Serrano
Advisor: Marlene Guirado
Abstract

Based on recent studies that analyzed the discourse of contemporary psychoanalysts, we could state that the theory informs the psychoanalysis clinical work; or, in a reverse way, we could state that the clinic becomes the theory real. These two statements raise a question about how Freud built a specific concept of psychoanalytical theory and the relationship between theory formulation and clinic or the analytical interpretation. The concept of unconscious, considerer the flagship of Freudian metapsychology, was analyzed supported by Institutional Analysis of Discourse method, as it is presented at \"The Unconscious\" by Freud. The results were surprising. From the question which organized the research to the analytical procedures our studies was guided by IAD. Our analysis indicated that, about the place was built for and by the concept, it has been found, first , the Freuds text has shown constant play between discovering unconscious, developing it, characterizing it (as the unconscious were a fact, a fact of experience), and between demonstrating it, inferring it, hypothesizing it, deriving it ( in theoretical mode). Moreover, it has been found that the unconscious concept was constructed as a block, or rather like a kaleidoscope; as if other concepts were required to explain unconscious itself. Relating to the way Freud produces knowledge, our analysis indicated that the unconscious is placed \"against\"; against philosophy, against medicine and against a psychology of consciousness. This \"being against\" is what inserts, incredibly, psychoanalysis in science discourse order, for Freud. Even with regard to knowledge production modes, metapsychology seems to stand on a certain institutional dispositive, which we name as \"analysis\". According to our research, this dispositive is the one that makes the \"magic\" in which theory gains airs of truth. Finally, we have discussed two issues, first, the analytical dispositive, not necessarily the metapsychology, as the definer of psychoanalysis; second, Guirados proposition of a clinic out of metapsychology (AU)

FAPESP's process: 13/04628-4 - From interpretation to construction: unconscious in analysis
Grantee:Felipe Martins Afonso
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master