Psychoanalysis

The psychoanalytic clinic is a singular subjective experience, a process that deals with something unique to each person.

The aim of the psychoanalytical experience is to explore what causes suffering in those who speak and, also, to clarify the source of their desire. It results in life-liberating effects.

As Freud outlined, psychoanalysis can have three primary purposes:

Therapeutic: treats a symptom. In this process, psychoanalysis can relieve anguish and anxieties and also treat something physical or psychic that disrupts life (insomnia, depression, suicidal thoughts, social maladjustment, strange and causeless pains, nervous tics, etc.). It seeks to discover and uncover the psychic origin of the symptom and disorder, enabling the person to find a more satisfying way of living, a more pleasant, productive, and joyful way of being.

Singular Truth: it serves to work on a personal issue, a doubt, an indecision, or an uncertainty in life. Its function is to seek what animates the person: a singular truth that guides their life, a knowledge that supports life and makes it function better.

Didactic Analysis: this is the analysis that produces a psychoanalyst.

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It aims to create a space for deep study and reflection on psychoanalysis, mainly with training and subjectivization effects.

Registration is open. The participation is desired to be free and engaged.

At the moment, there is no group in English, only in Portuguese. However, we may be able to set up a group in English. If you are interested, please contact us.

These reading groups are designed for anyone interested in studying Psychoanalysis. They focus on reading key texts by Freud, Lacan, and Miller. They are a space for debate based on the texts and always with the texts.

They are conducted through regular meetings via Jitsy Meet.
They are open to anyone interested in the topic.

Registration is open. The participation is desired to be free and engaged.
To take part, get in touch:

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Each individual of the human species is crossed by language and thus becomes a human being.
The subject (in psychoanalysis) is a spoken and speaking being. Psychoanalysis takes as its primary material the speech of this spoken and speaking being.

We can think that psychoanalysis is a kind of reading of what is said. However, it is no ordinary reading.

Reading in psychoanalysis is not a reading that seeks to share meanings. Nor is it a reading constructed with meaning derived from common sense, where what is understood is almost independent and disconnected from the words that were spoken – the listener understands what they wish to understand.

Starting precisely from the words spoken: this is the key to psychoanalytic reading, a reading described as “to the letter,” a reading based on the signifiers that encrypt something.

We often hear about what Freud and Lacan said. But what did they really say?

We want to know what they truly wrote, to read, interpret, and understand based on what is written. We aim to search for the words they used, we want to read the words they left behind through their speech or writing. We want to read their own words and understand the path they traveled to develop the concepts and ideas that sustain psychoanalytic practice.

This is the objective of the Reading Group: to read the words used by Freud and Lacan and, through this “moteriality” – the materiality of the word (mot) – to reflect on and decipher psychoanalytic concepts.

• 2024/11 – 2024/12
  Marie-Hélène Brousse. A Contemporary Neologism: Parenthood. 2005.
• 2024/09 – 2024/11
  Freud. Sobre a psicogênese de um caso de homossexualidade feminina. 1924.
• 2024/08
  Freud. Neurosis and Psychosis. 1924.
• 2024/05 – 2024/07
  Freud. The Ego and the Id. 1923.
• 2024/03 – 2024/05
  Lacan. The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real. 1953.
• 2024/02 – interrompido
  Miller. Marginalia on “Constructions in Analysis”. 1994.
• 2023/12 – 2024/02
  Freud. Constructions in Analysis. 1937.
• 2023/11
  Freud. Denial. 1925.
• 2023/11
  Freud. The Magic Block. 1925.
• 2023/05 – 2023/08
  Freud. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. 1923.
• 2023/03 – 2023/05
  Lacan. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function. 1949.
• 2022/11 – 2023/03
  Freud. Introduction to Narcissism. 1914.
• 2022/05 – 2022/11
  Freud. Drives and Their Fates. 1915.
• 2021/12 – 2022/05
  Freud. The Unconscious. 1915.