Destiny and daímon in psychoanalysis

Author(s)

Luiz Moreno Guimarães

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD)
• Defense date: 2018-05-11

Examining board members

Joao Augusto Frayze Pereira; Leda Maria Codeço Barone; Daniel Delouya; Camila Salles Gonçalves; Adelia Toledo Bezerra de Meneses

• Advisor: Joao Augusto Frayze Pereira

Abstract

The goal of this research is to contribute to the psychoanalytic investigation of Destiny. In this sense, we follow the unfolding of the notion in the work of two psychoanalysts - Sigmund Freud and Fabio Herrmann -, gathering and resuming their analysis on the subject, and risking to elaborate them furthermore. The argument is divided into two parts: I. Versions of Destiny in Freud; II. Destiny in Fields Theory. Part I begins with the examination of the term destiny in the Freudian reading of Oedipus Rex and the Destiny Drama surrounding the birth of psychoanalysis (1897-1900). It then reconstructs the article that presents for the first time Destiny as a clinical problem - Carl Gustav Jung\'s The Father\'s Significance in the Destiny of the Individual (1909) -, and it ends by dwelling on the metapsychology of Destiny, articulating Freudian considerations on the matter as of the year 1920. Part II begins by recovering the guiding spirit of the Fields Theory: the rescue of psychoanalysis true vocation. It then goes on to comment on the definition of Destiny that appears in the book Andaimes do real: psicanálise da crença[Scaffolding of the Real: Psychoanalysis of Belief] (1998), and finally it leans on the Three Times Theory created by Herrmann (1991, 2001, 2015). The course demonstrates that there are two opposing conceptions of Destiny in psychoanalysis: on one hand, what we call compulsive Destiny (in Freud), on the other, what we call dialogic Destiny (in Herrmann). And according to the original proposal of the thesis, this research invites the reader to consider the Greek term (daímon) as a methodological concept: daímon is the operator of the passage from the compulsive Destiny to the dialogic one. It concludes that this transit defines the analytical process itself, rediscovered within a single word: Destiny. The research ends with a few complementary studies that present specific ideas derived from the main conclusions (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/02920-2 - Echoes of the tragic thought in psychoanalysis: the question of destiny
• Grantee: Luiz Moreno Guimaraes Reino
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate