Inhibition.

This article explores the notion of inhibition at a theoretical and clinical level in psychoanalysis. The first part follows the development of the notion in Freud's work, from the "Project" (1950a [1895]) to Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926d). It identifies the two approaches to inhibition, the first from an energetic point of view, the second from the angle of its relations to anxiety. The second part of the article is devoted to the links between inhibition and Freud's thoughts about death, in particular in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety and the links to the death drive. It draws on some of Jones' notes and presents a brief clinical illustration. The third part focuses more particularly on general inhibition, especially in depression and melancholia. Based on the treatment of one patient, the author shows how the slow process of overcoming general inhibition is achieved through the gradual use of negation. From an economic point of view, it is suggested that psychoanalytic treatment, through the transference and associative speech, has an effect on the depletion of energy by diverting the "suction" of stimuli, paving the way for the formation of drive representatives, or inhibitions as symptoms, which will need to be dissected.

Something Was Lost in Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle: A Ferenczian Reading.

Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) brought a lot of new possibilities to psychoanalytic theory, but also a series of losses. While I recognize the importance of the death drive as a metapsychological construct, I argue that the first thing that went missing with the arrival of this groundbreaking Freudian text is the theorization of the ego instincts or the self-preservative drives. Freud never articulated some plausible inheritors of the ego instincts. I follow the Budapest School, and especially the voice of Sándor Ferenczi, for addressing this loss. The second thing that went missing after Beyond the Pleasure Principle is our openness in thinking through repetition. With the seductive formulation of the "daemonic" repetition in this 1920 text, our theoretical imagination around repetition seems to have been affected. I draw on the work of Sándor Ferenczi for exploring new forms of repetition. Finally, I offer a Ferenczian re-reading of the Freudian Nachträglichkeit, which I see as crucial in the process of pluralizing our thinking on repetition.

Envelhecimento e seus possíveis destinos: Uma reflexão acerca do trabalho do negativo / Aging and its possible destinies: Reflections on the role of Green's "negative work"

O presente texto investiga as operações de desinvestimento libidinal postas em cena pela pulsão de morte na realidade do envelhecimento masculino. Fazemos um recorte do conceito de pulsão de morte na psicanálise e apresentamos o trabalho do negativo de André Green, referenciado no complexo da mãe morta, como possível forma de simbolização das frustrações e perdas ocasionadas pelo envelhecimento. Apontamos ainda o lugar da palavra como fundamental na articulação do sujeito com sua própria condição.(AU)

This paper investigates the operations of libidinal disinvestment put into play by the death drive in the reality of the aging male. We point out the concept of the death instinct in psychoanalysis and present Green's theory on the work of the negative, emphasizing the dead mother complex as a possible form of symbolization of frustration and loss caused by aging. We also point the place of the word as the basic articulation of the subject with his own condition.(AU)

Envelhecimento e seus possíveis destinos: uma reflexão acerca do trabalho do negativo / Aging and its possible destinies: reflections on the role of green's "negative work"

O presente texto investiga as operações de desinvestimento libidinal postas em cena pela pulsão de morte na realidade do envelhecimento masculino. Fazemos um recorte do conceito de pulsão de morte na psicanálise e apresentamos o trabalho do negativo de André Green, referenciado no complexo da mãe morta, como possível forma de simbolização das frustrações e perdas ocasionadas pelo envelhecimento. Apontamos ainda o lugar da palavra como fundamental na articulação do sujeito com sua própria condição.

This paper investigates the operations of libidinal disinvestment put into play by the death drive in the reality of the aging male. We point out the concept of the death instinct in psychoanalysis and present Green's theory on the work of the negative, emphasizing the dead mother complex as a possible form of symbolization of frustration and loss caused by aging. We also point the place of the word as the basic articulation of the subject with his own condition.