Analytica: Revista de Psicanálise

Incidences of the dimension of musicality of the voice in the face of transference in the psychoanalytic clinic

Suzane Sulenta, Liani Maria Hanauer Favretto, Cláudio Kazuo Akimoto Júnior — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This paper proposes an approximation between the musical dimension of the voice and the psychoanalytic clinic, articulating the fields of music, voice and psychoanalysis based on the listening of psychoanalysts with a Lacanian orientation. Focusing on the musicality of the voice and its implication in transference, a qualitative and exploratory approach was adopted, based on the snowball sampling and psychoanalytic method. Interviews were conducted with four psychoanalysts, whose clinical reports revealed how the voice – in its rhythmic, sonorous and affective aspects – operates as a fundamental element in listening to the unconscious. The vignettes analyzed show that the voice can sustain desire, establish resonances between analyst and patient and constitute a support for the emergence of transference. Silences, babbling, repetitions and unconventional musicalities appear as expressive forms that favor the clinical encounter and allow the emergence of a singular speech. The voice, in this context, is not only a vehicle of meaning, but also a means of affectation and subjective inscription. Furthermore, it is worth noting that the training of the analyst also involves his or her ability to listen – a listening that is in tune with the rhythm of the other, sustained by transference and marked by a deaf point in relation to object a. Thus, more than answering the initial question – what are the implications of the musicality of the voice in relation to transference in the psychoanalytic clinic? – this study seeks to outline possible avenues of investigation between different fields of knowledge, without the intention of exhausting the subject. On the contrary, it seeks to raise new questions and indicate connections that may inspire future studies on the interfaces between voice, music and subjectivation in the psychoanalytic clinic.

Contemporary suffering and anxiety disorders: a psychoanalytic analysis of the rise of this diagnostic category and its relationship with current cultural aspects.

Lucas Gabriel Baviera — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0300

The aim of this article is to explore, using a psychoanalytical reading, how some contemporary categorizations of suffering, centered around the psychodiagnosis of so-called anxiety disorders. Freud problematizes, through his concept of discomfort in civilization, how the form of becoming ill and suffering psychically is intrinsically related to the structural organizations of the culture in which the individual is inserted. In this sense, using a bibliographic review methodology, this article focuses on searching for notions of subjective and cultural character in today’s society that dialogue with the pragmatic nosology of anxiety disorders. Based on the categorization proposed by Birman, which divides the modalities of contemporary suffering into three registers (the body, the excess and the intensity), we relate and deepen, with Freud, Birman and Han, with other authors in complement, how these registers relate to panic, generalized anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders. The relationship was established mainly on the basis of a way in which anxiety manifested in contemporary times is expressed in ways that go beyond the classic models of transference neuroses, related to castration anguish.

Keywords: Anxiety disorders. Contemporary psychoanalysis. Suffering in culture.

A trace of a drive’s Object in Ariana’s Ode to Dionysus, by Hilda Hilst (1974/2018)

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

The article aims to highlight the richness of the interface between psychoanalysis and literature and points out the possibility that a literary work has to clarify concepts and elucidate clinical issues, something that did not escape Freud, who used poems, novels and works of art when science did not offer him the tools to explain subjective phenomena. Following this logic, the present discussion revolves around the concept of object, drive and Self, taking as its theme the songs of Ariana for Dionysus taken from the poetic work by Hilda Hilst called Ode Discontinuous and Remote for Flute and Oboe: From Ariana for Dionysus (1974), where the presence-absence game of the beloved suggests an object investment that allows us to trace a central discussion around the relationship between Ariana’s song/cry for Dionysus and the trail of psychic work that the drive investment traces as a symptomatic longing for the presence-absence of an object of desire. In this scenario, in the face of human ordinariness and the celestial greatness of an object from the Olympus of Brazilian writers, an interpretative possibility was reached that Dionysus, Hilda Hilst’s supporting character (1974), constitutes a drive’s object.

The narcissistic pact of cisgenderity: psychoanalytic digressions of the offense of nomination

Bruno Latini Pfeil, Cello — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

According to Cida Bento, whiteness produces alliances in order to preserve itself by means of a narcissistic pact, and we understand that cisgenderity is immersed in the narcissism of whiteness, as Viviane Vergueiro postulates. We developed the idea of a narcissistic pact of cisgenderity. Placing ourselves in the position of analysts and affirming ourselves as “the monster that listens to you”, based on Paul B. Preciado. Preciado, we are faced with a reaction of rejection to the naming of the norm, since institutional cisgenderity uses the denial of its conceptualization as a fundamental strategy of its narcissistic pact; in other words, the norm is naturalized and thus aims to preserve itself. Our aim is to show that, through narcissistic alliances and refusal, modern/colonial normativities self-preserve and present themselves, among other spaces, in psychoanalytic knowledge. In order to follow this path, our methodology is a bibliographical review, through which we associate the Freudian notion of narcissism with the definition of narcissistic pact, by Cida Bento; with Otherness, by Grada Kilomba; with the offense of naming, by Pfeil & Pfeil. In this way, we conclude that cisgenderism, as a structure of domination, operates through narcissistic pacts and ego defense mechanisms, attributing Otherness to corporealities that do not reflect it.

The performativity of insulting language and the limits of legal recognition as a response to hate speech

Samuel de SousA Nantes, Inacio Antonio Silva de Mariz, Edgley Duarte de Lima — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

What is at stake when we take an interpellation from the context of everyday life to the legal apparatus of the State? Is it possible for the State to account for the intermediation of languages in a way that is satisfactory to its intermediaries? We resort to a conceptual analysis of hate speech to analyze the consequences, impasses, and issues involved in these processes. Let us think with Judith Butler about ways to expand an understanding of hate speech as a consequence of the norm, through the performative use of language as a means of constructing responses in the very scene in which the insult appears as an exercise of oppression. The author requests means of action in the very space where the hate speech occurs, as a bet on the subject’s capacity for agency through nonconformity to the grammar of imposition of power. In addition, she uses language as a performative mode of action and the way through which the phantasmatic structure of the insulting speech against the other can be touched, transformed, and repositioned, thereby producing a new form for universalism.

“A prostitute opens the bedroom door and finds her father”: a structural analysis of a myth of so-called high-end female prostitution

Natânia Lopes — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Based on anthropological research, this article draws on psychoanalytic theory to reflect on the repression of incestuous desire in the formation of the family and modern Western civility. To do so, it analyzes a story collected during fieldwork involving participant observation on high-end female prostitution in Rio de Janeiro. This story – repeatedly told among sex workers and approached here as a myth in the Straussian sense – recounts the encounter between a prostitute and her father during a paid sexual appointment. The article seeks to explore the meanings of this narrative within the ethnographic context from which it arises, while also traversing other settings to highlight the circulation of the myth (and its variants) in the social imagination surrounding prostitution on a broader scale. The discussion is framed by the question: how does the myth in question relate the economic and moral issue of sustenance, made possible through labor, to the traditional family structure prescribed as the model for modern Western society? The findings of the analysis underscore the significance of women’s labor in the underlying dynamics of desire that shape family and sexuality. It concludes, through an examination of the mytheme that gives the article its title, that the sense of dread and anguish expressed by women and represented in the mythical encounter with the father figure within the context of prostitution is tied to the conflict of meanings emerging from that setting.

The pale magic and the speech that insists: weavings of language and remnants of the Real in psychoanalysis

Carolina Dal col Vianna, Claudia Aparecida de Oliveira Leite — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

The aim of this study is to explore the power of speech through an examination of theoretical concepts in Psychoanalysis, specifically focusing on the role of language and its relationship with speech. The centrality of speech in Psychoanalysis can be traced back to Sigmund Freud’s work with hysterics, where he employed the technique of free association as a means of treatment. Additionally, this research delves into the symbolic nature of language, drawing on the method of structural linguistic analysis and the concept of symbolic efficacy outlined by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Furthermore, this study positions Jacques Lacan’s re-evaluation of Freudian theories as a foundational aspect of this examination. From this theoretical framework, the present work posits that language, in its ability to express the non-sensical, reveals a deeper reality and uncovers a truth about the subject that escapes the boundaries of the symbolic order. Thus, the power of speech can be understood as existing between the diminished magic of language and the failure that persists and leads to an understanding of the Real.

The construction of trauma in the life and production of Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Child sexual abuse has terrible consequences for an individual’s healthy development. Among the interventions that psychoanalysis offers to deal with this type of case, symbolization through art appears as an alternative to soften the psychic reality of the trauma. This paper aims to identify this symbolization explored in the trauma resulting from sexual abuse reported in the autobiography of the american writer, Maya Angelou, “I know why the bird sings in the cage”, in line with the analysis of the poem “Beating the child was bad enough”, also by her. Definitions of trauma for Freud, Winnicott, Ferenczi and Lacan will be addressed, emphasizing the importance of art and language, especially written production, for understanding psychic suffering. The Winnicottian reading of trauma, which especially conceives of the failure of an idealized object to perform its preconceived function, is evidently identified with the sexual abuse Maya experienced from her stepfather due to the confusions of feelings she reported. Lacan’s ideas on the importance of language and its signifiers, the primordial structure of his psychoanalysis, can be expressed from the analysis of the author’s life and work, which found in literary production an alternative to symbolize her suffering. The relevance of this area of study within psychoanalysis can therefore be observed, as well as the advantages of case studies extracted from autobiographies, considering the mode of writing (in most cases, stream of consciousness) as congruent with free association, which is the basis for psychoanalytic reading.

Elaboration and hindrance of the mourning in childhood: study of psychoanalytic textual productions between 2020 and 2024

Emanuelle Schuwart Fornasier Rossi, Lucas Guilherme Fernandes — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0300

The mourning is an experienced process from the loss, which can occur at any stage of a lifetime including childhood. However, topics related to death can be seen even nowadays as a taboo for many people. For this cultural construction, the conception of death, on the part of adults, can become a hindrance to the elaboration of children’s mourning, once they put them in a position of refusal and privation of this moment, using fictitious elements to justify the loss. Thus, this research aimed to understand the particularities of the experience of loss during childhood, considering the lack of information provided to children as an obstacle to their work of mourning. Through a bibliographic review of articles and books that addressed the theme of mourning in childhood, especially those from a psychoanalytic perspective, it was possible to highlight the need to make possible to children the participation in rituals and discussion about the death and the mourning, face of the importance for the elaboration. The survey highlights even essential the realization of more studies related to this thematic as a way to disseminate the reality of mourning also experienced by children rather than a valid experience in all its particularities discussed.

Keywords: Childhood mourning. Mourning in childhood. Psychoanalysis.

The antiphilosophical operation of Lacan’s theory of signifier

Alberto Warmling Candido da Silva, Vinicius Anciães Darriba — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This paper examines the theory of the signifier as conceptualized by Lacan, along with the philosophical dimensions that his proposal raises. Our thesis is that there is an antiphilosophical operation in the way how Lacan assimilates the concept of signifier. We argue that a better understanding of the radical nature of this assimilation requires a critique of the history of philosophy, particularly within the metaphysical tradition. Thus, we first explore the notion of antiphilosophy in Lacan through the work of philosopher Alain Badiou. Our aim in this presentation is to explore the epistemological consequences of the signifier and the issues raised by Lacanian anti-philosophy. To achieve this, we will trace the historical development of the Lacanian conception of the signifier and engage in a debate with central themes such as meaning, the unconscious, metaphor, and metonymy. We argue that the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis, within the framework of anti-philosophy, does not merely reflect a critique or rejection of the philosophical tradition, rather, it signifies the potential for a form of reason or truth that acknowledges the significance of determination.

Psychic suffering or mental disorder?: Clinical-political impasses between demand and reception

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This article is derived from the post-doctoral research conducted in cooperation between educational institution and the State Secretariat of Health between 2021 and 2023, starting from the issue of “non-adherence to treatment” in mental health. With the objective of collecting elaborations from the teams of the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS) regarding the daily clinical-political impasses at the moment of rupture of the Psychiatric Reform and the outbreak of the COVID-pandemic19, the article has as methodology to analyze issues that emerged in case discussions with professionals, under the foundations of Lacanian-oriented psychoanalysis. From the researchers’ inquiry regarding “difficult cases” (suicide attempts, self-mutilation, “self-boycott” and “non-adherence to treatment”), it is extracted, as a result, the difference between the reception/treatment of mental distress and the classification/withdrawal/medicalization of mental disorder. The impossibility of listening and interdisciplinary construction generates a “care vacuum”, replaced by actions of recollection in philanthropic institutions, among other forms of intervention that feedback demands in the field of mental suffering. The article points out, as a conclusion, the need for qualification of the teams that make up the RAPS with clinical-institutional/territorial supervision, among other implementations. It brings, as a contribution to RAPS, the main supports of the psychoanalytic clinic: the transfer, in its face of resistance and the drive of death.

Correlations between the death drive and war in light of the transition to freud’s second topography

Virginio Martins Gouveia — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

The general scope of our article is to provide an exposition that navigates through the notions of drive (Trieb), death drive (Todestrieb), and war (Krieg). Our starting point will be Freud’s work and his correspondence with Albert Einstein. We propose a historical-conceptual and theoretical excursus on the category of the drive, examining it in light of the transition to Freud’s second topography in order to analyze the emergence of the death drive concept and its explanatory power in understanding the historical persistence of large-scale armed conflicts. Our objective is to demonstrate how Freudian metapsychological concepts can provide critical tools for reflecting on war beyond sociopolitical determinisms, thereby underscoring the psychic dimension of human aggressiveness.

Um ato clínico e político: a escuta insurgente em tempos de supressão do sujeito

Elizabeth Fátima Teodoro — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

From offering words to investing in social bonds: conversation as a methodological device for research in Psychoanalysis

Cristina Moreira Marcos, Ana Clara Rocha Franco, Bruna Monteiro Hallak — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0300

In this article, we propose to delimit the use of conversation specifically as a research method in Psychoanalysis, in order to reflect on its clinical and institutional impasses and possibilities. Through bibliographic research, the methodological path was designed as follows: we started from the circumscription of research in Psychoanalysis, which prioritizes the subject and their knowledge based on the notions of the unconscious, transference, and free association. Next, we proceeded to present conversation as a research and intervention device in Psychoanalysis, based on its context of emergence and the characterization of its mode of operation. Finally, we addressed conversation as a bet on the social bond and a way of treating the real. As a result, we found that more than a simple research method, conversation also constitutes an intervention in the field under investigation, whose objective is to touch the subject’s real point, allowing not only individual narratives to emerge, but also the nonsense that causes surprise. Conversations are, above all, a research methodology that focuses on social bonds and serves as a way of dealing with reality. In this sense, a methodological device should not be understood only as a means of data collection, but as an instrument capable of producing new knowledge and enabling interventions.

Scene and dramaturgy of politics in a black student’s narrative: dealing with dissent

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0300

In this paper, we intend to analyze a scene narrated by a young black university student concerning the interpersonal connection and communication between a grandmother with her granddaughter. The scene was heard in a research context that sought to identify the ways and means of overcoming, coping with and dealing with the effects of racism within a university institution and in the context of the affirmative action policy in Brazil. Besides, the paper tries to consider inventive ways of interpreting results in qualitative research. Inspired by Rancière’s scene method, the scene narrated and remembered by the young woman depicts her grandmother peeled sugar cane and gave it to her granddaughter to chew. It is a scene that points to important themes regarding the history of the black population in Brazil, while also offering aspects that may challenge hierarchical relations and allow for the emergence of new subjective and social elements.

Research in Psychoanalysis and serendipity: the retrospect

Bruno Vasconcelos, Marta Regina de Leão D’Agord — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This paper seeks to discuss the topic of methodologies in the field of psychoanalytic research, based on the notion that serendipity – a term meaning the phenomenon of finding something valuable and not sought for – can be elevated to a research method. This occurs due to the specific temporality of psychoanalytic work, to which meaning is only attributed at a later date. The importance of temporality in the “just-after” or “retrospect” (in German, “Nachträglichkeit”, and in French, “après-coup”) presupposes the feedback of meaning to an event. Furthermore, the different theorizations of the unconscious require their own epistemology to approach it as an object of research. It is necessary to consider that it is not possible to have a predefined hypothesis, since the unconscious is that which escapes knowledge. Therefore, it can only be considered through its effects, such as slips of the tongue, jokes and symptoms. Our work links serendipity to the important role of chance, as Thomas Kuhn demonstrated in his research on the history of science. Finally, we retrieve the etymology of methodology with the intention of highlighting the journey-like nature that occurs in the construction of knowledge through research practice.

Escrevivência and Psychoanalysis: research, clinic and formation

Fábio Santos Bispo, Tayná Celen Pereira Santos — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This article discusses the intersection between escrevivência [live-writing] as a methodology that can be articulated with Psychoanalysis and three different levels or dimensions of transmission in psychoanalytic clinic: a clinical dimension, linked to the very experience of analysis; a didactic dimension, which connects the politics of writing with the transmission and teaching of Psychoanalysis; and an epistemic dimension, which involves the construction of a field of knowledge that does not exclude the subject, their body, life, and history. We propose that, in all three dimensions, there is a temptation to reduce the real to knowledge, and that escrevivência offers an opposing path, shifting this reduction or concealment. We revisit some references on the function of the matheme and the letter, as Lacan presents in lituraterra, to reflect on the affinity between escrevivências and the transmission of Psychoanalysis. We use the reference of Conceição Evaristo’s rereading of Macabéa to delimit the political and clinical importance that this writing practice implies for listening to blackness, the feminine, and peripheral, subalternized and/or dissident knowledge.

Letting the feminine write itself as method: the writing of the impossible in psychoanalytic research

Elizabeth Fátima Teodoro, Wilson Camilo Chaves — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This article proposes a research methodology in psychoanalysis, termed the “writing of the impossible,” designed to investigate the feminine as a clinical and conceptual operator, precisely due to its resistance to formalization and the logic of the whole. Instead of reducing the feminine to an object of conceptual representation, it is assumed that it inscribes itself as impossible, and it is precisely this logic that guides the method. Grounded in a theoretical-clinical approach, the writing of the impossible is structured around four guiding principles: (i) the Lacanian logic of the not-all, (ii) the Freudian temporality of the afterwards (Nachträglichkeit), (iii) the articulation with tensive semiotics, which guides a “reading-listening” sensitive to intensities, and (iv) the ethics of the “clinic of the written,” which navigates between listening and formalization. The methodology proposes a torsion from listening to reading, introducing the concept of the clinical (f)act as a construction and embracing non-knowing as an ethical axis of rigor and orientation of knowledge. Thus, the writing of the impossible asserts itself as a methodology that allows the feminine not just to be thematized, but to write itself as method, leading the research to embody, and not merely expose, the logic of its object.

Applied Psychoanalysis?: On the use of psychoanalytic theory in research

Fuad Kyrillos Neto, Maria Gláucia Pires Calzavara — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Based on teaching experience in the Research Seminar (SEMP) course within a Psychology Graduate Program, this article investigates the recurring methodological challenges faced by psychoanalytic researchers in academia. The study identifies a concerning trend: the hasty and uncritical use of psychoanalytic concepts as “ready-made answers”, undermining the careful development of original research problems. This phenomenon, termed “methodological anxiety”, leads to a dogmatic repetition of doctrine, hindering innovation and critical thinking. The article argues that this impasse deepens due to a paradoxical dynamic: while Psychoanalysis is granted a privileged epistemological status, it becomes disconnected from its clinical and historical roots. To counter this logic, the authors propose that methodology in Psychoanalysis should be understood not as a set of rules, but as: (1) resistance to the urgency for conclusions, valuing the logical time of elaboration; (2) overcoming mere imitation of canonical authors, encouraging a critical and creative reading that avoids the “mortification” of the researcher’s authorial voice; and (3) integrating Psychoanalysis into a program of historical epistemology of the human sciences. As a central contribution, the article advocates for researchers to develop “authorial signatures”, constructing research problems that engage critically and reflexively with the complexities of Brazilian social reality. The proposal aims to train investigators capable of employing Psychoanalysis as a framework for critical inquiry rather than as a dogmatic repertoire, thereby fostering psychoanalytic knowledge production that is both rigorous and unique.

The psychoanalytic methodology in research: the use of interviews and data analysis in the investigation of social phenomena

Arthur Kelles Andrade — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article explores the epistemological and methodological foundations of psychoanalytic research, focusing on the application of the interview to social and political phenomena. Psychoanalytic methodology departs from traditional scientific paradigms of neutrality, anchoring itself in the researcher’s implication. Even outside the clinical setting, psychoanalytic research is defined as clinical because it requires the sustainment of analytic discourse. The interview is highlighted as a privileged methodological instrument which, when operated through analytic listening (free-floating attention and free association), transcends mere data collection. The central axis of this approach is transference, which is understood as a methodological operator. Knowledge is not considered pre-existing data to be extracted from the subject, but rather something produced within the transferential relationship, which involves the researcher. In data analysis, conducted a posteriori on the transcribed material, the psychoanalytic method uses significant reduction to identify master signifiers, repetitions, and points of jouissance (enjoyment) in the discourse. Instead of seeking generalizations, the analysis values detail and focuses on what escapes the manifest meaning, such as the unsaid, silences, and avoidances in the discourse. It is concluded that, by sustaining listening and transference, the interview proves to be a rigorous psychoanalytic method for investigating the singular unconscious dimension present in the social bond.

Psychoanalysis is his method: the impossibility of dissociating research and clinical practice in the operation of a change in subjective position

Marina Mendes Fiorenza, Rita Manso de Barros — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0300

In this article, we initially discuss how Freud arrived at the psychoanalytic method par excellence, free association, and how it is impossible to dissociate research from clinical. In the following section, we try to understand why the Cartesian cogito creates the possibility of psychoanalysis, where it allows the subject to be stripped of his qualities, showing how psychoanalysis is a science. We also talk about the position of the analyst-researcher, which is not strictly equivalent to that of the analyst, but cannot be done without crossing this discourse, highlighting psychoanalytic research in the university.

The construction of the clinical case in Psychoanalysis: from the impossible to writing

Edgley Duarte de Lima, Marina Diniz Luna do Nascimento — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article takes as its starting point the specificities of psychoanalytic research, with emphasis on the method of constructing the clinical case and its implications for the formulation of knowledge in Psychoanalysis. It seeks to elucidate what can be extracted as most singular from the case and its effects of transmission, as well as what can be gathered from its writing. This is a theoretical study, essayistic in nature, based on a bibliographic review of classic and contemporary authors of Psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan, Figueiredo, Dunker, etc.). In this sense, the question of method in Psychoanalysis has long been relegated to a secondary discussion, in which methodological rigor was often conflated with the very notion of style, resulting in the inadvertent development of research with little or no concern for presenting the steps followed by the researcher throughout the process. The clinical case, in turn, is the product of what is extracted from the interventions of the psychoanalyst in the conduct of treatment and of what is distilled from its report. It is, par excellence, the clinical method that advances theory and the formulation of psychoanalytic concepts. Its construction points to a path that conceives the singular in its radicality and, for this reason, delineates a non-total relationship to knowledge, which, for Lacan, is always on the side of the subject. Finally, the construction of the clinical case, and its effects of transmission, calls for a writing that marks the analyst’s style, singularizing and formalizing the traversal of their path as an analyst.

Psychoanalysis and racism: possible methodological approaches

Joice Beatriz Efigênio dos Santos, Susane Vasconcelos Zanotti — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article investigates the psychological implications of racism in Brazil, using psychoanalysis as a theoretical and methodological framework. It begins by revisiting the main ideas of Freud and Lacan on segregation and recalls pioneering Brazilian postgraduate research in psychoanalytic discussions on the psychological effects of racism. Thus, it establishes the necessary framework for analyzing clinical, structural, and general aspects of the constitution of the subject traversed by raciality. The construction of a clinical case and the use of the case mark as a methodological operator underpin the investigation of the unique effects of racism. In Mariana’s case, the experience of naming in her family nucleus shows how racism — present in the social structure — implies her relationship with her own body and subjectivity. It is concluded that this analysis allows us to delve into the possible outcomes and the emergence of the subject in the face of racist discourse, reinforcing the power of psychoanalysis for investigating the effects of racism in contemporary times.

From neutrality to implication: notes on the creation of a psychoanalytic group listening space

Beatriz Morais Adler, Perla Klautau — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article examines the concepts of neutrality and implication in psychoanalysis through the experience of the extension project Tá na Roda: clinical-political interventions in educational settings, developed at the Institute of Psychology, UFRJ. The project creates psychoanalytically oriented group listening spaces aimed at elaborating suffering rooted in social inequalities. Since 2021, its activities have taken place in a community-based preparatory course in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone, attended mainly by young people aged 17 to 25, residents of nearby favelas. The proposal seeks to articulate research, intervention, and clinical practice, questioning the emphasis on neutrality and objectivity characteristic of modern science. Intervention-research offers a framework for acknowledging the researcher’s involvement and valuing knowledge construction in dialogue with young participants. Considering the dual position of the author as both researcher and psychoanalytically oriented psychologist, the work reflects on listening practices and on the ethical-political responsibility inherent to research, fostering a situated and implicated approach. The article defends an ethics of reserve and implication: while the analyst places aspects of their personal life in reserve, they also allow themselves to be affected and implicated in the encounter with others. Such a perspective challenges traditional notions of neutrality and highlights the relational dimension of knowledge production. It is concluded that discussing neutrality and implication in psychoanalytic research and clinical practice contributes to building a situated epistemology, attentive to its context of action and open to addressing the ethical responsibilities of the researcher’s presence.

Semi-structured interviews in psychoanalytic research: a wager on the emergence of the subject of the unconscious

Maycon Rodrigo da Silveira Torres, Matheus Coutinho dos Santos Alves — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0300

Research in psychoanalysis originates with Freud’s discovery of the unconscious, which established free association and the case study as fundamental devices that intrinsically connect treatment and investigation. This article aims to examine the relevance of semi-structured interviews in psychoanalytically oriented research. To this end, a bibliographic review was conducted on the research methods employed by Freud and later developed by Lacan, as well as on contemporary works discussing the articulation between semi-structured interviews and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic theory advances through the singularity of each case, which simultaneously challenges and enriches the theoretical corpus. By positing that the unconscious is structured like a language, Lacan introduced topological tools that formalize the theory, shifting psychoanalytic knowledge beyond the interpretation of meanings toward the logical structures governing the subject’s discourse. In this context, the transmission of psychoanalytic knowledge through the medium of the scientific article presents significant methodological challenges. A tension emerges between the specificity of psychoanalytic methodology and the requirements of research ethics committees, particularly in the Brazilian context. Ethical standards such as informed consent and confidentiality pose obstacles to the publication of clinical cases, a central method in psychoanalysis. As a possible alternative within the current academic framework, this article suggests the use of semi-structured interviews, which grant access to the participant’s speech while preserving psychoanalytic ethics and sustaining the commitment to theoretical advancement through the emergence of the subject of the unconscious and the pluralization of forms of enunciation.

The writing of the event: the clinical fragment as transmission in Psychoanalysis

Ana Luisa Sanders Britto, Musso Greco — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0300

This article investigates the clinical fragment as a unique method for research and transmission in Psychoanalysis, articulating clinical practice with Lacanian-oriented psychoanalytic theory. Drawing on the experience of the Desembola na Ideia project, the article aims to demonstrate how the writing of an event — defined as the irruption of singularities in clinical practice — can serve as a means to transmit the Real of the analytical experience. The central research problem is to explore how the clinical fragment can be legitimized and utilized as a research methodology, both in academic settings and within the psychoanalytic community. The text discusses this form of writing not as a mere illustration, but as a manifestation that emerges from the contingency of the clinical experience. The methodology adopted combines theoretical-conceptual research with clinical practice, based on material from the clinical and artistic work developed within Desembola na Ideia. It concludes that the clinical fragment, as the writing of an event, constitutes a privileged way to formalize and transmit the effect of the Real in analytic practice. Therefore, it supports a specific methodology for research in Psychoanalysis. Ultimately, this method allows Psychoanalysis to reinvent itself and to produce a mode of research that values the singularity of each case, contributing to the theoretical advancement of the field.

Subject and belonging: psychoanalytic twists in the face of public policies of affirmative action

Roberto Calazans, Maria Caroline Cardoso Gomes — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0300

What methodological reflections are required of Psychoanalysis when it works with subjects who have been systematically segregated in Brazilian society, particularly within the university setting? We propose a psychoanalytic reflection on the subject and the notion of belonging within the context of public policies of affirmative action. Based on clinical listening and conversation groups, it is noted that when public policies promote the access of historically excluded groups to institutional spaces such as the university, subjective effects are produced that strain traditional forms of recognition and identification. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, we seek to elucidate the relation between the capitalist discourse and the inscription and perception of the effects of massified signifier production. The concept of monosymptom is used as a theoretical tool to support this reading. Thus, the proposal with the conversation groups involves offering a space of listening to the twists subjects make in order to belong to the university territory, without losing sight of the marks of the unconscious and the collective history that traverse them. Belonging, therefore, more than a fixed identity, constitutes itself as a process in constant elaboration.