Affectio Societatis

The CLINICAL GROUP WORK

Ivonne Sierra Ortiz — 2025-02-03

The clinical-group approaches that are part of psychoanalytic theory begin to emerge in the middle of the twentieth century, it´s implementation forces to go beyond the classic treatment model since the cure goes from being individual to involve several subjects. The required technique reformulation forces to rethink the theory and to incorporate new elements to it, this has generated an effervescence of proposals that, through their own methodologies based on fundamental concepts, seek to listen those elements that have exploded in the psychic apparatus of the subject. Tracing the precedents of clinical-group work in psychoanalysis and in psychology has the purpose of elucidate the origins of group devices, the interests involved in their creation, the reaches of their work and the theoretical-practical framework that sustains their implementation.

About the enjoyment of the image of the self in social networks.

Rodrigo Aguilera Hunt — 2025-02-03

Abstract

This research aims to discuss a contemporary phenomenon within the framework of the so-called platform capitalism, linked to the massive use of social networks, in particular the Instagram application. Through the conceptualization of the circulation of the "image of the self" in such social network, a critical theory will be proposed, that develops a political science reading on the subjective effects produced by the regime of use of the image of the self. Emphasis will be given to concepts that cross Lacan's psychoanalysis with the Marxist and Foucauldian tradition, and thus apply topics such as surplus-value, surplus-enjoyment and ideology. Finally, we will seek to subvert the traditional logic of understanding the problem that would hold that social networks are a mere "means of use" for the autonomous individual, to be re-conceptualized from the notion of the unconscious subject established in the field of Other.

The good hearing, improvisation and the artificial voice in the constitution of the infans

Raul Oliveira Jung — 2025-02-15

From the widespread growth of electronic devices as a relational element, an artificial voice coming from an electronic device is proposed as a presence in the care scene and in the relationship of the infans with their primordial figures of care. From this intersection, positions and functions between the others, the machine, and the infans are proposed, which allow us to consider psychoanalytic variations in relatio to the processes of constitution of the psychic subject based on the voice.This study presents theoretical reflections supported by a bibliographical review and considerations derived from the proposed topics.

Gender, semblance, and sexuation

Leonardo Barreira Danziato — 2025-03-21

The article develops a discussion on the debates and controversies between gender studies and psychoanalysis, through an articulation between the concept of gender and two other concepts of Lacan: sexuation and semblance. It seeks to clarify that, despite theoretical, epistemological, and political differences, it would be possible to find points of dialogue that could foster progress in both the political and discursive discussions, as well as in the clinical field. The article expands the notion of the "feminine," as well as feminine jouissance, demonstrating its structural nature and independence from any particular gender. It positions an ethics of well-saying and the treatment of the feminine as central to this debate, whether in discursive and social logic or in the singularity of analytical work.

How to recognize ordinary psychoses?

Marco Máximo Balzarini — 2025-02-03

Abstract: Summary: The present work aims to provide tools to the psychoanalysis practitioner for the recognition of ordinary psychoses. Such recognition constitutes one of the biggest problems of the preliminary interviews due to the discretion under which the signs of the forclusion of the Name-of-the-Father are presented that could give an account of a psychotic structure which decisively conditions the direction of the cure. The guiding question is, how to recognize ordinary psychoses? As a result, we arrive at a systematization of discreet signs of the forclusion of the Father-Name. It is concluded that for psychoanalysis ordinary psychosis is a structural psychosis, unlike psychiatry, before which the intervention is no longer to interpret, but pragmatic, which recognizes the resources that the subject has to paralyze the effects of forclusion.