Fixação e regressão: uma revisão dos conceitos aplicada à prática da psicoterapia de orientação analítica / Fixation and regression: a revision of the concepts applied to the practice of analytically oriented psychotherapy

Os diversos fenômenos psicológicos presentes no desenvolvimento humano determinam as características da personalidade. Desses fenômenos, a fixação e a regressão, por exemplo, podem revelar que o modo de satisfazer ou reprimir o impulso durante o desenvolvimento da libido não ocorreu satisfatoriamente, evidenciando um "prender-se" ao que se acredita ser um modelo de resolução. A relação entre esses dois fenômenos está na origem da criação de sintomas comprometedores de uma vida psíquica satisfatória. Identificá-los, assim como elaborá-los, torna-se alvo da psicoterapêutica com orientação analítica.(AU)

The various psychological phenomena present in human development determine the characteristics of personality. Of these phenomena, fixation and regression, for examples, can prove that the way to satisfy or suppress the impulse, during the development of the libido, was not satisfactory, showing a "holding on" to what is believed to be a model of resolution. The relationship between these two phenomena is behind the creation of compromising symptoms of a satisfactory mental life. Identifying them, as well as elaborating them, becomes the target of psychotherapy with analytical orientation.(AU)

An application of bi-logical theory to the study of psychic change and mourning.

The authors propose that the process of psychic change involves the 'working through' of mourning for the loss of 'theories of life' that are based on narcissistic omnipotent beliefs. These theories need to be changed by other more realistic ones regarding how to resolve the inherent and natural problems of existence. Questioning the 'truth' of these theories of life, as well as the acquisition of the perception of the existence of time, makes up part of the process referred to, and this applies to the analyst in a certain way as much as to the patient. Such problems are lived, re-edited and revised in the transference/countertransference relationship. The authors present a clinical illustration. They explore the concepts of symmetry, asymmetry, homogenization and differentiation in Matte-Blanco's bi-logical theory and propose that these are important to the comprehension of the dynamic of the psychic changes which occur in a non-static analytic process.