Pesquisa psicanalítica: como situar a subjetividade na cultura contemporânea / Psychoanalytic research: how to locate subjectivity in contemporary culture

RESUMO

This paper makes an argument for psychoanalysis in academic rsearch, setting out four main components - the unconscious, speech, sensuality and defences - that form the basis of psychoanalytic research. The use of psychoanalysis in this paper is contrasted with reductionist approaches, and it elaborates instead a style of analysis that will be able to attend to the way psychoanalysis operates as part of discourse. An example of analysis organised around analytic steps is given which focuses on scenes from the film Spartacus, and connections are then made with Lacanian perspectives. Psychoanalytic research can be used to illustrate how what feeels to be so deep inside us is actually a symptom of life under capitalism