O afeto: uma unidade psicossomática: (Freud, Reich e Winnicott)

Abstract

Theír paper has as íts general objective the buildíng of a theoretical-clinic definition of 'Affect'. For this, I use initially the work of Freud and the theoretical path that the tem, affect had in three moments: the beginning (Studies about the Hysteria, Project for s Scientific Psychology and The lnterpretation of Dreams); the texts called metapsychologícal and the finai documents of the theoretical tum of the second topography. 1 point out the importance of affect in these moments, íts definitions and it intra-theoreticalcontradictions in relation to the clini<:al phenomena. Especially questions such as: the definition of affect as discharge way of 'quota of affect' in the repression and the existence of 'unconscious affects'. Based on this analysis I tum to two authors Wilhelm Reich and D. W. Winnicott togo deeper into a view of affect using for this some theoretical convergence of his documents, especially the common conception of psycho-soma. The psychosomatic view presupposes a unity between soma and psique and between quality and quantity, showing these divisions as aspects of one unity only 'energetic flow' for Reich and 'existential flow' for Wtnnicott. Building, in short, a clinicai theoretical view, specific of affect, based on the three authors.