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Psychoanalysis has potentially helpful contributions to current debates about sexuality. Discussions on this topic are essential in current days, especially on Brazilian society, considering the recent up surging of a sexist mentality which incites various forms of abuse and violence against women. Therefore, this brief theoretical essay aims to present a mapping of psychoanalytical postulations, Freudian and post-Freudian, on female sexuality. More precisely, we seek, in a first moment, to circumscribe central thesis on "becoming" a woman, as proposed by Freud. In a second moment, we plan to synthesize propositions of contemporary authors with whom we can establish a dialogue and that, in our midst, have used psychoanalysis to reflect about "being" a woman, or, in other words, the experience of female sexuality in adulthood, namely in mature age. We have concluded that the propositions of the contemporary authors we synthesized here made advancements in some aspects on Freudian's theories on female sexuality, but don't render his ideas obsolete. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Physical pain, mainly when chronic, turned into a major theme of interest to Psychology only when the subjectivity inherent in this phenomenon was acknowledged. This study aims to discuss Freud's first metapsychological contributions to the understanding of the subjective aspects of physical pain. In general terms, Freud qualifies physical pain as a pseudo-drive, at the threshold between the somatic and the psychic. In addition, Freud relates it with melancholy and, hence, with the deprival from a libidinously invested object. Furthermore, the existence of an only indirect link between pain - independently of its psychic or physical nature - and pleasure in masochism and sadomasochism is established. Therefore, although no complete theory was developed on the theme in the texts considered on this occasion, the author established conceptual coordinates that dialogue with their further development and provide fruitful elements for the psychoanalytic clinic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]