O NOME PRÓPRIO: uma questão para a clínica psicanalítica

Abstract

The proper name has an essential articulation for the subject and, therefore, is an issue for the Psychoanalytic Clinic. The name points to the insertion of the subject in a family. It points to the prohibition of incest. It refers to a narrative that crosses the subject and that is already underway even before his birth; at the same time that it presents itself as something that makes reference, that cannot be erased. Therefore, there are a series of questions that appear in the clinic and that involve the proper name and how each one can respond each time when summoned throughout their life trajectory. The present work aims to discuss the importance of the notion of a proper name for the psychoanalytic clinic. Therefore, based on the work of Sigmund Freud, it had as specific objectives: to identify Freud's relationship between the proper name and the notion of family based on Oedipus-castration and how the proper name presents itself in the clinic of neurosis. It consisted of a theoretical research in Psychoanalysis, which proposes a return to the texts of Freud and Lacan. This methodology emphasizes the premise that there is no way to establish closed rules and concepts in Psychoanalysis, which allows the research to be based on a return to the works so that, from them, taking into account the desire of those who research, a new reading. The first chapter discussed how the proper name refers to the subject's place in his family, as well as the notion of family based on Oedipus-castration. The second chapter brought some clinical cases reported in the literature, in addition to a fragment of a case presented by the author, which point to the importance of the proper name in the clinic of neurosis. It was possible to argue that the proper name is linked to the Oedipus Complex, which points to the prohibition of incest. To hold a name, therefore, implies the desire itself - with all the questions that flow from it.