O corpo vivido entre afetos: psicorporeidade e intersubjetividade em Ferenczi, Balint e Winnicott

Abstract

This thesis intends to reaffirm two existential dimensions which constitute the human being: the psycho-corporeity and the inter-subjectivity. The human being is a psychosomatic unity which constitutes him/herself through the human ambience which envelops him/her. This assertion does not sound remarkable in 2005, but it was never hegemonic in Western thought. Within the dualistic rationalism proposed by Plato in ancient Greece, and radicalized by Descartes in the modern age, a radical separation between body (res extensa) and soul (res cogitans), and between subject and object was taken for granted. I use the notion of the body living in inter-subjectivity, present in Merleau-Ponty, to expound how I conceive these two dimensions. I establish the parallels between its ulterior conception (the notion of flesh) and the Freudian theoretical reformulation starting with the introduction of the concept of narcissism (1914c), and of the inherited unconscious, rooted in the body (1923a). This is the period of Freudian formulating where the pillars of the main concepts developed by Ferenzi, Balint and Winnicott are to be found. These are the psychoanalysts the contributions of which may be grouped in that which I call the Ferenczian matrix in which the reformulation of the theory of trauma and the clinical proposal of regression/progression in a facilitating ambience propiciating a friendly space for the subjective experience stand out. The second aim of this work is to demonstrate the articulation between these psychoanalysts most important works, and how the dimensions of psycho-corporeity and inter-subjectivity are present in them.