The mystical vocation of psychoanalysis

This study intends to reflect on psychoanalysis as a clinical practice essentially compatible with certain characteristics of mystical phenomena, which enables it to clinically approach them. We start the text introducing our understanding of mysticism as a phenomenon of alterity, rather than a subj...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Dias, Paulo Henrique Curi, Safra, Gilberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Memorandum (Belo Horizonte)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/6587
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/6587
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:misticismo
experiências religiosas
psicologia clínica
psicanálise e religião
mysticism
religious experiences
clinical psychology
psychoanalysis and religion
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Sumario:This study intends to reflect on psychoanalysis as a clinical practice essentially compatible with certain characteristics of mystical phenomena, which enables it to clinically approach them. We start the text introducing our understanding of mysticism as a phenomenon of alterity, rather than a subjective production of the human being. Through such idea, we approach three characteristics of psychoanalysis that make it relevant for a clinic of the mystical phenomena: its apophatic method, its practice of deconstructing the identity of the “I” and its anthropological inscription between the universal and the particular. Thus, we finalize the study,  thinking about the possible clinical function of psychoanalysis when approaching the mystic, based on the idea of spiritual illness.