Impasses and scope of psychoanalysis: The entrepreneurship of contemporary analysts

Authors

  • Silvio Augusto Lopes Iensen Universidade Franciscana
  • Mônica Medeiros Kother Macedo Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/ctc.2018.111.09

Abstract

This is a qualitative study of psychoanalysts with extensive clinical experience and scientific research articles in the field of Psychoanalysis. It has been intended to explore the effects of contemporary clinic demands in participant’s clinical practice, using semi-structured interviews, and also their conceptions of Psychoanalysis actual situation. The obtained data was studied using the Content Analysis method and resulted in the structure of four Final Categories: Incompleteness and openness of Psychoanalysis: the value of Freud’s legacy; Modern clinical Psychoanalysis: work demands to psychoanalysts; Psychoanalysis’ gold and; the last one, Confronting the discontents of Psychoanalysis: risks and potentials. The findings of this study enabled us to define the creative work of psychoanalysts facing clinical impasses as entrepreneurship and allow to designate as contemporary those professionals who, committed to the essence of Freudian legacy, concern and create before clinical questions, producing, therefore, knowledge about Psychoanalysis.

Keywords: psychoanalytical clinic, contemporary analyst, Psychoanalysis, entrepreneurship.

Author Biographies

Silvio Augusto Lopes Iensen, Universidade Franciscana

Psicólogo, Mestre em Psicologia Social e da Personalidade pela PUCRS. Doutor em Psicologia pela PUCRS. Professor do Centro Universitário Franciscano – (UNIFRA). Santa Maria / Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil.

Mônica Medeiros Kother Macedo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Psicóloga, psicanalista, Doutora em Psicologia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Professora Titular da Graduação e do Programa de Pós-Graduação do Curso de Psicologia da Escola de Humanidades da PUCRS. Porto Alegre/ Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil.

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Published

2018-06-05

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018): Jan-Apr

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