Pulsão de morte e gozo: possíveis entrelaçamentos com a automutilação

Abstract

The present study aimed to present the path of psychoanalytic construction of the concepts of death drive and jouissance, in order to identify and trace possible intertwinings in relation to the manifestation of the phenomenon of self-mutilation in contemporary times. For that, a qualitative study of exploratory and interpretative nature was carried out. In Study 1, the information contained in the SEPA records was analyzed, in which some socio-demographic information was identified and another table was also developed for the organization of the two categories for Bardin's content analysis. In Study 2, semi-structured interviews were carried out with selected participants from Study 1, with a history of self-mutilation. From these interviews, content subcategories were identified and analyzed according to Bardin. The results obtained indicate that the participants had the period of adolescence as the beginning of the practice of self-mutilation. Thus, anguish comes from the real of puberty, understood as a bodily change that pierces the symbolic threatening what is faced with it. When pulsating via repetition compulsion, the death drive builds a possibility of being heard, and due to this encounter, it can enter the representational mesh. Indeed, it is possible to understand self-mutilation as an attempt at symbolization, in this way, it would be the symptom in the form of an act to try to deal with anguish. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]