Book, Freud Neurosis, Psychosis, Perversion[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. This book gathers in a single volume texts scattered over more than thirty years of clinical research, which laid the foundations of Freudian clinical structures.: neurosis, psychosis and perversion. The main axes of psychoanalytic psychopathology were established in an arc that begins in the context of the correspondence with Fließ, at the end of the 19th century, up to the famous articles on masochism and fetishism, written in the interwar period. Although about a century separates us from these writings, they remain contemporary. Freud was not only ahead of his time, but also of ours. For example, when it states that “Pathology could not do justice to the problem of the immediate cause of the disease in neuroses while it was only concerned with deciding whether these conditions were of an endogenous or exogenous nature”. Perhaps even today a certain psychopathological discourse is trapped in this poor dichotomy between genetic or environmental, biological or psychic factors.. The Freudian perspective is more modern and more daring: “Psychoanalysis warned us to abandon the sterile opposition between external and internal factors, between destiny and constitution, and taught us to find the causation of neurotic illness regularly in a certain psychic situation that can arise in various ways”. The texts gathered here also show how Freud articulated psychopathological reflection with rich clinical material. This volume features an original editorial apparatus, which helps the reader bridge the distance that unites and separates us from Freud.