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Vol. 41 No. 1 (2021)
Revista Portuguesa de Psicanálise

Clinical Articles

Rutura psicótica e a vivência analítica

https://doi.org/10.51356/rpp.411a5

Published 2021-06-30

  • Sandra Oliveira

Sandra Oliveira
Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise

Abstract

Psychotic rupture and the analytical experience

The author makes essential assumptions about the symbolization process and its failure to address how the unnamed and unrepresented elements that inhabit the psychotic part of the patient's mind maintain an area of ??the mind inaccessible to the analytic process, thus enhancing the outbreak of serious psychic rupture. Such ruptures are sometimes as surprising as they are unexpected and pose unavoidable difficulties in the experience and management of the analytical process. The importance of the analyst's internal setting is then underlined as a container film capable of transforming and integrating the different phenomena that occur in the analytic session.

Keywords

Psychotic rupture, Analytical experience, Failure in the symbolization process

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Author Biography

Sandra Oliveira

PHD. Psicanalista. Membro Associado da Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise/IPA.

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