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This article characterizes the world view of Jungian psychology based on the concept of unus mundus. A sample with articles by Jung, his commentators and authors of Quantum Physics was analyzed using Jungian hermeneutics. The results were organized according to the following analysis categories: “the invisible plane underlying the empirical level of reality as totality and unity”, “the invisible plane as the source of creation and movement”, “the invisible plane as marked by non-locality” and “the psyche and the invisible plane.” The main conclusion that can be drawn is one of a worldview in which the empirical reality is seen as grounded in an implied/invisible order which is considered to be a source of creation, movement, unity, non-causal connection and unconditioned by time and space. Archetype is considered a “bridge” between the psyche and the invisible order, and synchronicity as evidence of this connection.

This article aims to discuss the arrival of adolescence for the autistic subject, and the implications arising from this period of life, having psychoanalysis as theoretical reference. Initially, adolescence is conceptualized. In a second moment, it articulates the autist’s adolescence and the concept of invention. In order to do so, it gets hold of the concepts of Freud-and-Lacan-oriented authors’ works and uses the documentary account of Owen Suskind’s history to address the particularities of their passage through adolescence.

This article seeks to apprehend the processes involved in the constitution of the autistic body for which there is not the Other as a reference. In the light of Daniel Tammet’s testimony, a British author and autistic writer, it will be possible to elucidate the place of objects for autistic people and how the autistic person’s interest in the out-of-body object allows them to build their edge, acting as a protective resource against bodily disturbances, anguish and isolation. Thus, investment in external objects results in a reduction in the incidence on the non-interconnected body of enjoyment, opening the possibility for the field of the Other. The objectives are to examine the concept of body in psychoanalysis in relation to autism, to investigate the constitution of the autistic body from the psychoanalytic theory and, finally, to identify the effects on the body of interest for autistic objects.

Palliative Care is an approach with a distinct and integrative viewpoint to oncological and chronic-degenerative diseases. Based on it, extensive care is a treatment proposition which aggregates the perspective of a transitional process. The aim of this article is to present, within this perspective, the process of implementation of therapeutic workshops in a private hospital network. Description and analysis of activities performed, focusing on the stages of the project from its setup until the present moment, will be carried out. The identified benefits promote resilience and include factors such as social support, self-knowledge, recovery of a sense of meaning, coping, bioethical issues and the grieving process. Overall, it may be said that therapeutic workshops, as a modality of group care, are, in an integrative and multidisciplinary manner, a new field of work, which requires more research aiming to contribute to the expansion of its results.

This article aims to highlight the transposition, within the scope of Brazilian public policies, of the existing epistemic tension between the re-educational and psychodynamic proposals for the treatment of autism, identifying Psychoanalysis in the latter category and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy among the former. Thus, some Brazilian norms that rule the inclusion of people with autism in public policies are briefly presented here. It focus on the content of the two guiding documents for the treatment of autism in the Unified National Health System (SUS), issued by the Ministry of Health in 2013, which makes it possible to explain the perspective of psychoanalysis in relation to the proposed policies. The shift of epistemic tension to the political context, with the consequent legal claim forbidding the psychoanalysis to assist people with autism, is cleared up by some recent historical facts, taking place either in France or in Brazil. The methodology applied was the literature review.

This article deals with a few basic concepts from psychoanalysis regarding autism and sexuality using fragments of testimonies from four subjects who in isolated biographic reports, address to these two concepts. Four different perspectives on diverse courses of the child experience based on the real and which approach a category based on the silence, in the suffering of the extreme anguish, a personal effort in the creation of a tailored Other.

  This article addresses the diversity of the field of knowledge on autism at different times and discusses the epistemological bases that guide the notions of spectrum and autistic structure, derived from the discourse of science and from the Lacan-oriented psychoanalysis, respectively. It spots the historical trajectory of the notion of autism since its foundation in the field of classical psychopathology and its evolution according to a psychodynamic approach, together with post-Freudian analysts. It identifies autism in different versions of the DSM, in which it is reduced to a deficit in neurodevelopment. It examines the hypothesis of autism as a clinical structure and discusses some aspects of its distinction in relation to psychosis. It demonstrates the commitment of research and the application of psychoanalysis to autism, since the fifties, emphasizing its theoretical, ethical and clinical aspects.

This article aims to understand how autism challenges the mother in the exercise of motherhood, having the power to affect directly her desire and weaken the mother-child relationship. Although the number of cases of autism has continued to increase since its discovery, it still constitutes an enigma even in the field of science, which favors maternal distress. Thus, in an attempt to elucidate the issues involved in the theme, it is important to trace a brief history about autism and motherhood, in addition to the culturally established ideals or standards. The text still presents the view from Psychoanalysis regarding the women’s desire concerning the motherhood experience, and the made-up solutions as a way to treat the uneasiness resulting from the maternal relationship with autism.

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This article aims to discuss the connection between psychoanalysis and psychiatry based on the question: what is the medication for the autist? Narrative review was used as methodology. Scientific evidence shows that there is no specific medication for autism, but certain symptoms which disrupt the functionality of daily life, such as insomnia, aggressiveness, agitation, among others, can be medicated. What the analyst aims at is not to change the form of autistic functioning, but to allow the possibility of building a unique universe, solutions that no diagnostic manual can anticipate. In this sense, psychiatry and its therapeutic arsenal, via the act of medicating, take the place of the analyst’s partner, allowing the subject not to be reduced to being a simple object of diagnosis, in the name of a supposed “normality”. Medication can contribute in a punctual, discontinuous or, at times, continuous manner, enabling the course of analytical treatment.

Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão baseada numa experiência clínica como estagiária em uma instituição belga, denominada Le Courtil, que acolhe crianças e jovens autistas, psicóticos e neuróticos em estado grave. O trabalho do Le Courtil consiste na prática entre vários, que tem a reunião clínica como um dispositivo para elaborar os casos, um a um, e os profissionais que ali atuam visam a abrir para o sujeito a possibilidade de inventar sua própria resposta ao seu sofrimento. Há também um compromisso dessa instituição com a transmissão, por meio de seminários, apresentação de casos e acolhimento aos estagiários. Neste artigo, será realizada a exposição do Courtil e a fundamentação teórica da prática nessa instituição, bem como uma apresentação de recortes da experiência clínica, na qual se ilustrará o trabalho realizado nesse contexto institucional.

This article intends to explore the subjects of masks and anonymity aspossible ways to engage in ethical and political experimentations. Forthat matter it is important to let ourselves be affected by the intensity ofparadoxes that inhabit the city’s streets and social struggles associated withthem. The essay treats anonymity as a conceptual tool that could bring freshthinking and air to the constant vigil against modern oppression, keepingus away from a private subjectivity as well from the constraints found inidentitarian collectives. The investigation puts anonymity in the realm ofresistance: which kind of resistance? What forms of expression could putit in relation to politics and ethics? Those questions are put into open perspectives that could help address the problems of State violence and thevarious ways to fight it.

This article brings some issues about the contemporaneity, marked by akind of epidemic of violence and a pandemic of fear. It also highlightsthat the production of this kind of fear becomes a device of domination,that makes individualistic interests prevail, which undermine public space.This direction of analysis is based on Hannah Arendt’s and Agamben’sstatements. At the end, it shows an experiment in a Public University in theSoutheastern Region of Brazil that turned into a strategy to face this state ofaffairs, envisioning effectively public policies in the education field.

The growing requirement for scientific research has already become a dailyprocedure at the universities of our country, especially those who maintaina significant set of stricto sensu training courses. The goal of this article is todiscuss this demand, exploring two angles of the concept of resistance: theresistance needed to receive and deal with the bureaucratic requirementspresent in the act of researching and resistance designed in the possibilities of turning researches into a living exercise of thought. These two angles, whichcoexist in our historical time, bring to researchers the challenge of creatinga research practice allied to social transformation, but also connected to theexperience of affections and their developments. At the end of the study, itwill be possible to show that the practice of research implies bureaucraticdimensions, but goes far beyond them, witnessing also the relevance ofgraduating sensitive researchers, able to receive and analyze social realities inan affective and contextualized way.

This paper studies the homeless population as an emblematic case todiscuss the relationship between daily life and bureaucracy, displaying thetensions between living on the streets and the functioning of public policiesconcerning homeless people’s living in two capitals in the Northeast ofBrazil. Based on homeless people’s narrative excerpts, participant/itinerant’sobservation records and workers’ reports through interviews, the studyproblematizes the distance between the letter (bureaucracy) and life (dailylife) and the relation between regulated time and space, highlighting how,outside the institutional walls, the daily life is practiced in its uniqueness, but excluded from the right to the city. In this context, the city is understoodas polis, concluding that the challenges on the street are the challenges of thecity: aggregating stories and supporting the differences.

This study aims to bring into evidence a sensitive dimension of educationalpractices, through a non-standardized style of knowledge production. Thetext-script permeates an actress’ artistic performance while unveiling thestage-classroom where teaching is performed, embodying contemporaryexistential dilemmas pertaining to working with education. The exerciseof fictional writing, as proposed by Bottoni and Costa, sets up themethodological strategy that interweaves this study. This strategy aims to reveal paradoxes of a professional practice in face of the predominant nihilismthat takes the actors’ bodies, in the context defined by Han as “society ofthe weariness”. How to develop resistance movements, where just wearinessseems to exist? How to build up escape lines, when everything seems toinvite to relinquishment? These are the questions suggested throughout theplot. They call for the analysis of education in times that not only invite togive up, as also incite resistances.

Professionals are increasingly looking for postgraduate degrees to studyissues related to their own work. Nevertheless, there is a lack of studiesanalyzing the uniqueness of this condition of producing research. Based onRené Lourau, this essay aims at discussing the analysis of implication, as apossibility to explore the worker-researcher’s potential in scientific activity,instead of the distancing from the object, as a condition. At the end, thediary writing is pointed out as a possible device for managing the workerresearcher’scollective implication analysis.

This article brings into debate the importance of the group device inthe production of data from the research “Basic education and family:reproductions and inventions in the Belo Horizonte Integrated SchoolProgram”, which means to know the relationships established by coordinatorsand students in teacher training in the workshops. Actually, It is a teachertraining program implemented and maintained by the Belo Horizonte CityHall, based on the expansion of the school day extension, with universitystudents from different areas of knowledge. The study applies the researchinterventionmethodology and the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari as atheoretical framework, interrelated with Bourdieu’s ideas. Based on thediscussions of the school territory, regarding the relationship with the familyand violence, the group appears here as resistance, as a device that favorsthe emergence of the collective in the creation of inventive processes ofsubjectivation.

Este trabalho objetiva problematizar a escalada do fascismo e doconservadorismo no Brasil e as principais formas de enfrentamentoconstruídas pelo Conselho Federal de Psicologia (CFP). Desde 2016,acompanhamos no país um aumento significativo de discursos conservadorese de ações que cerceiam as liberdades democráticas individuais e coletivas,que nos remetem ao fascismo. A Psicologia, como ciência e profissão, temsido um dos alvos prioritários dessa onda conservadora. Diante disso,foi realizado um levantamento das notícias hospedadas no site virtual doConselho Federal de Psicologia, que compreendeu o período de janeiro de2016 a maio de 2019. Os resultados revelaram importantes consideraçõessobre a postura do CFP diante do desmonte das políticas públicas, dosretrocessos no campo dos direitos sociais e civis e das manifestações depreconceito, racismo, LGBTfobia ocorridas no país, nos últimos anos.

This work seeks to offer, by means of the semiotic concept of iconicity, an explanatory proposition in order to understand the relationship between hypnosis and chronic pain. It considers hypnosis as a set of processes involving communication and trance experience. Employing a brief clinical excerpt, it emphasizes iconicity in hypnotic communication, as a process based mainly on the consideration of the other, the clinic of showing and the experience of the present. On the other hand, regarding the trance experience, the work stresses the iconicity present in the relations with the self-image and the corporal scheme of the subject, consisting of complex semiotic systems in which the chronic pains are set. The conclusion highlights the proximity between iconicity and alterity, especially with respect to the role of the protagonists of the therapeutic relationship in hypnosis.