Compulsão à repetição: seus sentidos e enigmas na obra freudiana
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2024-11-29
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Bernardo, Bruna Porchat de Assis 
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Casetto, Sidnei José
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Trabalho de conclusão de curso
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Neste trabalho tivemos como objetivo investigar ocorrências e sentidos que o conceito de compulsão à repetição adquire no decorrer da obra freudiana. O estudo de tal conceito se mostra relevante por estar presente ainda de forma rudimentar desde as primeiras teorizações metapsicológicas de Freud (se complexificando em trabalhos posteriores) e por constituir um tema recorrente na prática clínica atual. Para isso, se fez necessário o recurso a outros conceitos de Freud (como os de processo primário e secundário, princípio de prazer e pulsão) e a análise de sua relação com outros fenômenos relevantes da prática clínica- como a resistência e a transferência. Foi discutido principalmente o texto “Além do Princípio do Prazer”, de 1920, no qual Freud formula oficialmente o conceito e se dedica a compreender seu funcionamento. A partir disso, identificamos como sentidos que podem ser atribuídos ao conceito: uma forma de retorno do recalcado; uma substituição do impulso para a lembrança; uma maneira de reviver uma situação passada, com o sujeito assumindo uma posição ativa ou buscando um maior apoderamento sobre aquilo que viveu; uma repetição em busca de ligação e representação psíquica, no caso de eventos traumáticos; uma repetição de antigas experiências dolorosas e que já não trouxeram prazer quando ocorreram. Como enigma nos parece permanecer obscuro o fato do psiquismo adotar a repetição para lidar também com eventos traumáticos, e não o afastamento máximo deles e a busca direta por roteiros alternativos. Acreditamos que a compulsão à repetição remete também à forma como a própria teoria psicanalítica se constrói: empreendendo um resgate de conceitos do passado em busca de compreender aquilo que se dá no presente.
In this paper, our goal was to investigate the occurrences and meanings that the concept of repetition compulsion acquires throughout Freud's work. The study of this concept proves to be relevant because it has been present, albeit rudimentarily, since Freud's earliest metapsychological theorizing (becoming more complex in his later works) and continues to be a recurring theme in current clinical practice. To this end, it was necessary to reference other Freud concepts (such as primary and secondary processes, the pleasure principle, and drives) and to analyze their relationship with other relevant clinical phenomena- such as resistance and transference. The main text discussed was "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (1920), in which Freud formally introduces the concept and dedicates himself to understanding its functioning. Based on this, we identified several meanings that can be attributed to the concept: a form of return of the repressed; a substitution of the drive for recollection; a way of reliving a past situation, with the subject either taking an active position or seeking greater mastery over what they lived through; a repetition in search of connection and psychic representation, in the case of traumatic events; a repetition of old painful experiences that no longer brought pleasure when they occurred. One of the enigmas that seems to remain obscure is the fact that the psyche adopts repetition as a way of dealing with traumatic events, rather than seeking maximum distancing from them and a direct search for alternative paths. We believe that repetition compulsion also refers to the way in which psychoanalytic theory itself is constructed: by undertaking a retrieval of past concepts in order to understand what is occurring in the present.
In this paper, our goal was to investigate the occurrences and meanings that the concept of repetition compulsion acquires throughout Freud's work. The study of this concept proves to be relevant because it has been present, albeit rudimentarily, since Freud's earliest metapsychological theorizing (becoming more complex in his later works) and continues to be a recurring theme in current clinical practice. To this end, it was necessary to reference other Freud concepts (such as primary and secondary processes, the pleasure principle, and drives) and to analyze their relationship with other relevant clinical phenomena- such as resistance and transference. The main text discussed was "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (1920), in which Freud formally introduces the concept and dedicates himself to understanding its functioning. Based on this, we identified several meanings that can be attributed to the concept: a form of return of the repressed; a substitution of the drive for recollection; a way of reliving a past situation, with the subject either taking an active position or seeking greater mastery over what they lived through; a repetition in search of connection and psychic representation, in the case of traumatic events; a repetition of old painful experiences that no longer brought pleasure when they occurred. One of the enigmas that seems to remain obscure is the fact that the psyche adopts repetition as a way of dealing with traumatic events, rather than seeking maximum distancing from them and a direct search for alternative paths. We believe that repetition compulsion also refers to the way in which psychoanalytic theory itself is constructed: by undertaking a retrieval of past concepts in order to understand what is occurring in the present.
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BERNARDO, Bruna Porchat de Assis. Compulsão à repetição: seus sentidos e enigmas na obra freudiana. 2024. 51 f. Trabalho de conclusão de curso (Graduação em Psicologia) - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Instituto de Saúde e Sociedade, Santos, 2024.