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2025-06-09T08:37:16-03:00

The Contingent Foundation of Chance in the Destinies of the Drive

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Since Beyond the Pleasure Principle, the concept of drive has been articulated with the compulsion to repeat. Reformulating this concept, Lacan emphasizes that free association, functioning as speech delivered to chance, paradoxically reveals the symbolic determination that organizes the subject. This essay explores the articulation between chance, contingency, and necessity in the destinies of the drive, based on the dialogue between psychoanalysis and Meillassoux's reading of Mallarmé's poem A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance. Meillassoux shows how Mallarmé fixes chance by making opposing alternatives coexist in an undecidable character, but this fixation only becomes possible because an inaugural and contingent act establishes the field of possible alternatives. By instituting the universe of possibilities, absolute contingency also creates the ground upon which repetition is drawn—a repetition that, however, conceals its own contingent and traumatic origin.

Hölderlin non-dupe?

2025-06-09T08:37:16-03:00

We examine the notion of errancy (Irrsal) in Friedrich Hölderlin's texts as a substrate for an ethical position. Starting from his proposition of a categorical withdrawal, we compare Hölderlin's writing to Jacques Lacan's elaborations in the 1970s on errancy as a condition of existence. By inventing a savoir-faire with errancy, Hölderlin uses it as a help that allows him to radicalize his writing practice.

H’era: erotismo, pulsão e desejo em Max Martins

2025-06-09T08:37:16-03:00

This work aims to investigate the relationship between sexuality and language that marks the poetry of the poet Max Martins (1926-2009), especially in his book H'era (1971). For this we rely the psychoanalytic theory, situating that the foundational encounter between body and language brings as the residue the object a, which responds at the same time by the structural emptiness and desire. We observe, from the analysis of some poems in the book, that the poet works by taking language to the limits, exposing the lack of meaning, and how, in this territory, creates a space of erotism in which the know-how with the object a stands out in a desiring scene with the reader.

Cortar, cortar-se:

2025-06-09T08:37:16-03:00

No ensaio, partimos da figura um corp’a’screver, de Maria Gabriela Llansol, para ler os corpos escritos das místicas santa Verônica Giuliani e Santa Maria Margarida Alacoque. Teremos, como referência, além das autoras citadas, recorreremos a Lucia Castello Branco, Roland Barthes, Gerard Pommier, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan, Michel de Certeau, Severo Sarduy, dentre outros. Objetivamos propor um pensamento acerca da escrita literária e da escrita mística que, a partir na dimensão do gozo, tem lugar corpóreo e se dá como o trabalho de contornar, por vezes de forma literal, as letras, ainda sobre o corpo, demarcando-o em sua singularidade.

pulso da escrita poética na margem da literatura com a psicanálise

2025-06-09T08:37:17-03:00

The aim of this paper is to investigate, based on the translation movements and the concepts of literature and psychoanalysis, the poetic effects on writing, literature and life.

A pulsão da escrita, o endereçamento e a letra em Ana Cristina Cesar

2025-06-17T07:43:03-03:00

This paper reflects on the writing of Ana Cristina Cesar, in order to follow the drive for writing. With theoretical and critical support from literary theory and psychoanalysis, it investigates: a) the desire to write, unfolded in Want-To-Write and drive for writing; b) the interlocution and the addressing, pivotal procedures in the work of aforementioned author; c) the letter, a notion that brings literature and psychoanalysis together.

A ninfa-histérica:

2025-06-09T08:37:17-03:00

Esse texto pretende analisar o elemento pulsional e feminino na psicanálise, a partir de duas figuras de mulher; a saber, a ninfa na história da arte e a histérica, figura de mulher dissecada pelos primeiros textos de Sigmund Freud. O objetivo é aproximar essas figuras dos conceitos de reminiscência e sobrevivência (nacheleben). A reminiscência enquanto um sintoma que surge com muita prevalência na clínica da histeria, e o conceito de sobrevivência ou nacheleben, abordado pelo historiador de arte Aby Warburg e relido pelo filósofo Didi-Huberman.

Do umbigo do horror à melodia das pulsões

2025-06-09T08:37:17-03:00

This article investigates the problem of the fragmentary nature of accounts of the horror of the prison system. It starts with the question: how can we encompass the navel of horror, undoing the symbolic and imaginary arrangement? To address this issue, we address two aspects of analytical interpretation: the deciphering of the strange (fremd) from oppositional relations through transference and the work of the signifying chain in the drive circuit; reading the letter of the symptom, an experience with the body and with the movement of the drive. We seek to point out, through fragments, the singular way in which Jorge Almeida resists “prison,” the encounter with “public security.” The Uncanny ([1919] 2019) provides us with the key to a strategy for reading the fragmentary, the irregular, specific to accounts of prison horror.

Entre o esvaziamento do espírito e as remanescências simbólicas

2025-06-09T08:37:17-03:00

This article explores surrealist language and its connection to psychoanalysis, examining how Latin American artists like Tilsa Tsuchiya and Leila Ferraz use art and literature to represent contents of the unconscious and reality beyond rational logic. Psychoanalysis, with its concepts of drive and the unconscious, intertwines with the works of these artists, who create dreamlike and erotic images, reflecting the tension between Eros and Thanatos. This study fits into the thematic dossier by considering the drive as a motor for artistic creativity, investigating how surrealism, as an expression of liberation and delirium, engages with the challenges of subjectivity and the relationships between art, literature, and psychoanalysis.

Literatura e Psicanálise

2025-06-09T08:37:17-03:00

This article investigates the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, analyzing literary creation as a psychic process similar to the childhood play described by Freud. Poetic writing is presented as an essential practice in the educational context, favoring the expression of fantasies and emotions. By comparing poetic activity to play, the text argues that poetry in schools can help to alleviate psychic tensions and build new visions of reality.

Oedipus, in ecstasy, plunges into the (im)mobile depths of blood: the fantastic devours The Vulture, by Franz Kafka

2025-06-09T08:37:17-03:00

In the dissonant announcements of a new perspective for the classic horror narratives that deal with the threat of the (super)natural, given the fictional fantastic, Franz Kafka had broken the barriers of the narratological structures, exposing the fragility that prevails over reality and its forms of representation, because, with his creative volatility, writer was able to unite the field of the parable, considered averse to the fantastic aesthetic, by having, not only, a reference, from the narrator-character, who enunciates a present voice, but, above all, by the implicitness of a cannibalistic (a)morality. Therefore, this work will be structured under the prism of one of his parables, The Vulture (1920), guided by the aesthetic devices that authorize an examination based on the indomitable effects of the fantastic, especially when inferring the domains of subjectivity and the unsustainable unconscious movements, Thanatos turned into a symbol by the language that frays it.

Entrevista a Raul Antelo

2025-06-09T08:37:17-03:00

Raul Antelo foi professor titular de literatura brasileira na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Guggenheim Fellow e professor visitante nas Universidades de Yale, Duke, Texas at Austin, Maryland e Leiden, na Holanda. Presidiu a Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC) e recebeu o doutorado honoris causa pela Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Entre as suas diversas produções, destacam-se Crítica acéfala (2008), Maria com Marcel: Duchamp nos trópicos (2010), A máquina filológica (2021) e Inventário de sonhos usados: Goya plagia Didi-Huberman (2022).

Nessa entrevista, gentilmente concedida a Carolina Anglada e a João Vítor Araújo, o intelectual parte da memória das primeiras bibliotecas, onde o encontro com o pathosformel warburguiano traçara algo no corpo e no imaginário do futuro pesquisador: da solução de compromissão que o sintoma representa na esfera subjetiva, incorporada a um modo de leitura por vir, será seu poder de dissolução que agora passa a valer como dispositivo crítico das imagens. Logo, a montagem dessas reminiscências não poderia não dispor o historiador da arte José Pijoan ao lado de García Lorca, traduzido por Drummond. O diálogo, então, avança, do espelho à tela e à escopifilia, da formação à subversão do sujeito, da forma e da fórmula ao pathos, em torno de questões que infinitamente deságuam em outras leituras, como uma dança inesperada entre perguntas e comentários, sempre um passo para além do conhecido. Uma oportunidade singular de ler a persistência pulsional, ao mesmo tempo dissolvente e construtiva, a enredar, em uma fabulosa e rigorosa trama, trajetos indiretos, transmissões invisíveis e a latência da memória.

O desejo de psicanálise: exercícios de pensamento lacaniano, de Gabriel Tupinambá

2025-06-09T08:37:18-03:00

This review aims to present some of the key axes structuring the book O desejo de psicanálise: exercícios de pensamento lacaniano by Gabriel Tupinambá, as well as to highlight its theoretical and practical relevance regarding the challenges of contemporary psychoanalytic practice. To this end, it will carefully examine some of the fundamental categories both constructed and revisited in the work—such as the notion of a Lacanian ideology and the political economy of the clinic—alongside an overview of certain antecedents and theoretical affiliations. The conclusion, in short, is that the work represents a convergence of efforts by analysts, analysands, and even psychoanalysis enthusiasts toward a different experience of the clinic.

O que é escrita feminina: seguido de Feminino de ninguém: exercícios de aproximação, Lucia Castello Branco

2025-06-09T08:37:18-03:00

A resenha aborda a segunda edição do livro O que é escrita feminina (2024), de Lucia Castello Branco, que, através de uma abordagem entre literatura e psicanálise, reflete acerca das relações entre o feminino e a escrita.

Das partes abertas: ensaio sobre o gozo da matéria, de Jonas Samudio

2025-06-09T08:37:18-03:00

The text aims to reflect on the book Das partes abertas: ensaio sobre o gozo da matéria, written by the author Jonas Samudio and published by Amitié Casa Editorial, in Salvador, recently, in 2024. Based on the image of Santa Teresa d’Ávila, by the baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, from the 17th century, the book provokes a reflection on the gozo da matéria, in a way that evokes aspects of psychoanalysis, art, enjoyment and matter. Added to this is the fact that the book is constantly permeated by a poetic voice, which moves through its pages, without ever sharing the same space as prose writing.

Agripina Menor e o uso de estereótipos retóricos na representação de mulheres em posição de poder

2025-06-09T08:37:18-03:00

This article aims to analyze the representation of Agrippina The Younger using criteria provided for by rhetorical treatises, which establish certain models of conduct (rhetorical stereotypes) also provided for by poetic precepts. It is our objective to analyze Agrippina's characterization under this rhetorical lens, as this way we can understand how her representation was intentionally constructed in a vituperious way, not only for political or social reasons, but, more importantly, for a formal segment, inserted in the discursive education of the dominant masculine discourse.