Wanessa Graminho de Carvalho Huttel
Psychologist on a path through Psychoanalysis
About psychoanalysis
It is a clinical practice developed by S. Freud that utilizes free association on the part of the patient and interpretation on the part of the analyst (Roudinesco, 1998). J. Lacan was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who, upon returning to Freud's work, conducted seminars and his clinical work in order to propose a different perspective for thinking about the theory.
This perspective was influenced by his relationship with linguistics, philosophy, structuralism, and mathematics.
Free Association?
In free association, the subject speaks of whatever comes to mind, whether from recent or old memories, fragments, scenes, or snippets of daily life, without worrying about scripts or an ideal order of what will be said.
Method
The method I use to conduct my clinical practice in psychoanalysis is guided by the theories of Freud and Lacan.
Personal analysis
Everyone is subject to periods of suffering in life, and it is not always possible to devise a means, outcome, or direction to deal with what afflicts them, sometimes even paralyzing them. Psychoanalysis is one of the possible paths – listening to the symptom, the anxieties, and their resistances, since personal analysis provides a space that is not hostile to error, it does not propose to listen only to what the subject says, but to what they do not know they are saying while speaking. It opens space to listen to oneself and, from this listening, to discover how it makes sense for the subject to situate themselves in the world as a being of language.
The practice of psychoanalysis allows the analyst to listen to the gaps in language, and even the holes that allow access to the content of the unconscious. It is from this transference relationship that it is possible to hear how the subject was marked by affects, anxieties, and lacks in childhood as a pulsional being – as well as how these marks accompany them throughout life and permeate their relationship with family, money, profession, and ultimately with the world. This space enables the analysand to give meaning to the content that is forbidden and to develop other ways of dealing with their suffering and what is around them.
Psychoanalysis with children and adolescents
Free association with the child happens in a slightly different way – through play. There, in the transference relationship, it is possible to access the child's unconscious, as well as listen to the suffering that is not necessarily spoken, but acted out.
In clinical work with adolescents, in addition to talking, it is also possible to conduct some sessions with games and play activities that facilitate transference during the sessions.