Perception and phantasy: outlines based on Freudian metapsychology

Author(s)

Marcio Leitão Bandeira

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD)
• Defense date: 2016-08-26

Examining board members

Nelson Ernesto Coelho Junior; Flávio Roberto Carvalho Ferraz; Luis Claudio Mendonca Figueiredo; Ana Maria Loffredo; Paulo César de Carvalho Ribeiro

• Advisor: Nelson Ernesto Coelho Junior

Abstract

This thesis main objective is the study of perception in Psychoanalysis aiming to explore its psychic dimension from outlining its relations with the concept of phantasy. Perception has its importance when understood as mediator of the relation between the Ego and the external reality, but becomes more relevant when its role as mediator between the Ego and the internal or psychic reality is taken into account. The concept of phantasy (grounded on Freudian metapsychology) enriched our research on perception in its psychic modalities, which are: conscious perception, internal perception, endopsychic perception and unconscious perception. We decided to begin such endeavor circumscribing the notion of perception and the concept of phantasy. The work with each one of them unfolded through thematic trails that connected them to other concepts, such as unconscious, desire, representation, symptom and psychic apparatus. This first part is found on Chapters 1 and 2 and matches our network of associations, based on which we produced two in-depth studies about the relations between perception and phantasy, this time taking as object of study the phenomena of dreams and hallucinations. These theoretical articulations are present respectively in Chapters 3 and 4. At last we present as results of this Thesis: (i) the mapping of a conceptual field to the elaboration of unconscious perceptions metapsychology; (ii) new steps into the circumscribing of modalities of perception, specially the development around the notion of endopsychic perception; (iii) a theoretical deepening of hallucinations modalities, in both its positive and negative forms; (iv) the acknowledgement of four types of relations between perception and phantasy, denominated as: genetic, configurational, interference and defensive. Additionally, in our Final Considerations we point out some subjects related to our research but during which we had no time to deepen (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/16775-9 - Perception and Phantasy: sketches from the Freudian metapsychology
• Grantee: Marcio Leitão Bandeira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate