Oedipus consistency in lacanian psychoanalysis: zero symbols for desire

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  • Léa Silveira Sales Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Keywords:

Structuralism, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Oedipus, Lévi-Strauss, Zero symbol

Abstract

During the 50’s, it prevails in Lacan’s work a structuralist interpretation of psychoanalysis which inverts the approaching of the unconscious, assigning effectiveness to something that was formerly disqualified as “inert and unthinkable”. In this context, it gains relief a re-reading of the Oedipus complex whose terms are clearly inspired in Lévi-Strauss. The purpose of this paper is to shed some light upon the function fulfilled by the signifiers “Name-of-the-Father” and “phallus” as “zero symbols” of the structure of desire. The way such kind of symbols were described by the anthropologist reveals why this function was requested by the psychoanalyst.

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Author Biography

Léa Silveira Sales, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Possui graduação em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Ceará, mestrado em Filosofia e Metodologia das Ciências e doutorado em Filosofia, ambos pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos, e aperfeiçoamento em estágio de doutorado pela Université Paris VII - Denis Diderot. Atualmente, é Professora Substituta do Departamento de Filosofia da UFSCar. Áreas de atuação: filosofia e epistemologia da psicologia e da psicanálise, história da psicologia, filosofia.

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Published

2008-10-04

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SALES, L. S. Oedipus consistency in lacanian psychoanalysis: zero symbols for desire. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 209-220, 4 Oct. 2008.

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2008): Fractal: Journal of Psychology

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