Freud e o Caso AB: entre a esperança e a ruína / Freud and the case of AB, between hope and ruin

O artigo recupera um desconhecido caso de Freud, do qual a correspondência Freud & Pfister dá fragmentárias notícias. As cartas trocadas entre 1924 e 1927 fornecem informações sobre o encaminhamento, a difícil evolução do tratamento de AB e o sofrimento de Freud ao atendê-lo. Os avanços e recuos do problemático caso estão relacionados com as vicissitudes da vida de Freud, com os avanços da psicanálise e com os acontecimentos sociais e políticos à época. Pacientes como AB, com problemáticas narcísicas e esquizóides, afirma o artigo, continuam chegando aos consultórios dos analistas hoje.

This article describes a little-known case treated by Freud, known as the AB Case, about which the correspondence between him and Pfister gives us some fragmentary information. The letters these friends exchanged between 1924 and 1927 discuss Pfister’s referral of the young patient to Freud, the difficult treatment involved and Freud’s suffering during the process. The article associates the advances and setbacks in this complex case, related to Freud’s personal difficulties at the time as well as with advances in psychoanalysis and with the social and political events of the period. Patients like Ab who show narcissistic and schizoid traits, still continue to arrive at analyst’s offices today.