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The purpose of this paper is to present some considerations about the philosopher Judith Butler's thinking, her criticisms of Lacan's theory, as well as some counterpoints to her critical arguments, aiming to demarcate Butler's possible matches and mismatches with psychoanalysis. Within this course, we identified that the author's criticism is restricted to the first lacanian teaching, disregarding the advances of the sexuation formulas and the notion of sinthome, as a singular arrangement of the falasser with the jouissance. Besides that, we verified that her question about psychoanalysis didn't exclude that, to think about gender, Butler would use the conceptual apparatus of Freudian and Lacanian metapsychology, especially the notion of drive. We concluded that Butler's criticism of psychoanalysis does not need to be taken as a problem or an obstacle, since it promotes a fruitful requirement for theoretical and clinical precision that is emerging nowadays to advance in the debate on the new orders of sexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses a thesis on drug addict treatment as a segregation device. Its methods is based on clinical cases of patients admitted in specialized ward at psychiatric Hospital. It was identified association between hospitalization and places of drug intake as a logical continuity. Data was analyzed using Lacanian oriented psychoanalysis. Drug addiction is related to the development of the scientific discourse as science produces real from its work by mathematical formalization as capitalism expands and introduces new consumer goods. As Master Discourse induces a loss of jouissence object by incidence of language and produces a splitted subject, Capitalist Discourse is articulated to the homogenization of juissence made by science and increases risk of abolishing subjectivity. In consequence, segregation is the social bond that crosses these discourses and it is expressed by different means of freedom privation. Psychoanalytical treatment for drug addicts sustains a place for subject as resistence to materÂ's command. It imposes a limit to institutional tendance to supress subjectivity for a generalized cure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work aims at circumscribing a possible outlining when considering love, transference and the analyst's role facing the distinct limitations on each and every love engagement. The aforementioned limitation has been problematized by Lacanian psychoanalysis as a structural void which lies on the encounter of the subjects due to their relation with language. This path unravels guided by the conception, proposed by Lacan, that the speaker is an essence-lacking being, who needs to go through the significance in order to represent themselves. While experiencing this movement, something is concurrently ciphered, circumscribing an inextirpable void at its arrival. It is sought to think how love, sustained by analytical listening, may deal with that void, incarnated on a mismatch lived by those who love, avoiding presenting itself as some deceiving pilfering. Thus, this article seeks a distinctive possible answer to an emerging original path for love. Along this motif, spans Lacanian texts regarding love and displacement, Freudian texts with reference to analytical technique and literature excerpts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article about female devastation studies the link between this form of suffering and the particularities in image and body constitution of females, considering their structural lack of an ultimate sign for sexual identification. Here, devastation is read as an inversion in body image, possibly caused by the loss of a loved one. We try to gather its marks by tracing back both concepts of Discomfort and Symptom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As we will try to show in the article, initial result of a research on the symptom in Freud and Lacan, Freud's case study of Little Hans, published over one hundred years ago, teaches us how a subject whose world collapsed and who is taken by anguish, can invent, rig up with the remaining fragments a symptom that reorganizes for himself a liveable world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]