Coletividade e histeria: psicanálise e manifestações sociais / Collectivity and hysteria: psychoanalyses and social events / Colectividad e histeria: psicoanálisis y manifestaciones

A proposta deste trabalho é trazer uma contribuição partindo da noção psicanalítica de histeria que percorre o avanço teórico em Freud e em Lacan, para dizer de organizações coletivas. Para isso, pretendemos dedicar-nos às elaborações de Freud (1921) sobre 'identificação por meio do sintoma' -- que dão margem a uma suposta 'histeria coletiva' -- e a posterior teoria dos discursos de Jacques Lacan (1969-1970) sobre o enquadramento dos laços sociais, nos atentando em sua provocação aos 'revolucionários' de maio de 1968, indicando-os como alocados ao que denominou de 'discurso da histérica'. Com isso, pretendemos defender, a partir da noção de histeria em psicanálise, a existência de ao menos dois desdobramentos diferentes que se originam do mesmo tipo clínico: 'histeria coletiva' e 'discurso da histeria'. Assim, tentamos contribuir para melhor compreensão das possibilidades e limitações das manifestações coletivas e grupamentos sociais, especialmente alguns que permearam a cena política brasileira nos últimos tempos. (AU)

The proposal of this paper is to bring a contribution starting from the psychoanalytic idea of hysteria that goes of theoretical advance by Freud and by Lacan to think about collective organisations. For this purpose, we intend to dedicate our studies especially to elaborations by Freud (1921) about 'identification to a symptom' - that permit it a suppose 'collective hysteria' - and the succeeding theory of the discourses by Lacan (1969-1970) about the social ties' framework, observing his provocation to the 'revolucionaries' of 1968 May, pointing them as being allocated to the 'Discourse of the Hysteric'. Therefore, we intend to defend from the idea of hysteria in psychoanalyses, the existence at least two different ramifications originating from the same clinical type. Thus, we will try to contribute to a better comprehension of the possibilities and limitations of the social events and social groups, especially those that permeated the Brazilian political scene in recent times. (AU)

La propuesta de este trabajo es aportar una contribución a respeto de las organizaciones colectivas partiendo de la formulación psicoanalítica de histeria, haciendo un recorrido por los avances teóricos encontrados en la obras de Freud y de Lacan. Nos dedicaremos a las elaboraciones de Freud acerca de la 'identificación a través del síntoma' - que abre una grieta para pensar en una supuesta 'histeria colectiva'- y la posterior teoría de los discursos de Lacan acerca del encuadre de los lazos sociales, llamando nuestra atención a su provocación a los 'revolucionarios' de mayo de 1968, indicándonos de que se trataba de hallarse emplazado en lo que él ha denominado el 'Discurso de la Histérica'. De esta manera, nuestra intención es defender, partiendo de la noción de histeria en psicoanálisis, la existencia de al menos dos desenlaces distintos que tienen origen en la misma tipología clínica. Así pensamos contribuir para avanzar en una mejor comprensión de las posibilidades y limitaciones de las manifestaciones, en especial algunos de los cuales formaron parte de la escenario político brasileño reciente. (AU)

Investigation of a suspected outbreak of lipoatrophia semicircularis in children. / Investigación de una sospecha de brote de lipoatrofia semicircular en niños.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Recent reports of outbreaks of lipoatrophia semicircularis (LS) in various countries have generated discussion regarding the potential role of the environmental characteristics of office workplaces in new buildings. The objective of this study was to investigate a suspected outbreak of LS among children in a public school in Barcelona, which generated tremendous alarm. METHODS: We performed an epidemiological assessment including descriptive and prevalence analyses, and an environmental investigation followed by a psychiatric assessment according to Small's criteria. We compared the prevalence of LS and its 95% confidence interval between children and staff attending the day-care centre under study and other centres. RESULTS: Among 86 children attending a day-care centre we detected 11 confirmed and 2 possible cases of LS (15.1%) while among 41 children attending other day-care centres we identified 8 cases and 4 possible cases (29.3%) (P=.10). Among 12 day-care staff, we detected 8 cases of LS (66.7%) while among 19 women working different jobs we identified 14 with the same condition as the staff (73.7%) (P=.98). All lesions were finally classified as indentations with different locations. The environmental evaluation didn't identify any exposure factors with a significant role in the onset of the outbreak. The outbreak shared 13 of Small's 16 criteria regarding epidemic somatoform disorder ("mass hysteria"). CONCLUSION: The presence of indentations can be considered a normal variant in the lower extremities of children. The characteristic development of the process leads us to the conclusion that this outbreak was an epidemic somatoform disorder.