Psicanálise, configuração individualista de valores e ética do social

Abstract

Refuting the view now prevailing in social anthropology, the article seeks to offer a new outlook on relations between psychoanalysis and the individualistic shaping of values that characterizes modern Western society. According to current social anthropology, psychoanalysis embodies the promise of recouping a wholeness lost as a result of the world's process of de-sanctification. The self is seen as constituting this new wholeness value, while psychoanalysis, insofar as it proposes redemption through the self, is viewed as a modern religion with individualistic effects. In questioning this vision, the article offers as a counterpoint the idea that the Lacanian formalization of the subconscious through symbolic structure overcomes the dichotomy between subject and society. This leads Lacan to assert that analysis should lead the subject to dedicate his or herself to guaranteeing the workings of the great Other, which is understood to mean that psychoanalysis should lead the subject to assume his or her responsibility for the workings of the symbolic structure.

Psychiatry and Military Conscription in Brazil: The Search for Opportunity and Institutionalized Therapy

“…Health care reform was initiated by Brazil’s second substantial constitutional revision in 1988. Throughout the 1990s, several important changes ensued, including a large-scale expansion of the primary health care network into rural areas and shantytowns, the psychiatric deinstitutionalization movement, and the establishments of publicly funded posts for community-based mental health practitioners (CONASEMS 2002; Tenorio 2000). As Brazil has counted on a vibrant clinical and university-based psychiatric community from the early 1900s, there has been little difficulty in filling these posts, and in some parts of Brazil, supply exceeds demand—particularly in the private sector.…”