Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Homelessness.

Psychoanalysis is often viewed as a practice relevant only to educated people of means. This article describes a project that matches psychoanalytically trained clinicians with unhoused and formerly unhoused adults in a large urban community. D. W. Winnicott's ideas about impingement, the holding environment, fear of breakdown, and careful monitoring of the analyst's interiority have proven to be most valuable theoretical and clinical tools. A decade-long case example demonstrates the challenges and healing potentials of the work.

Filoctetes: a expressão do arquétipo da vítima. Qual a medida da dor? / Philoctetes: the expression of the victim archetype. What is the measure of pain?

O presente artigo explora a figura de Filoctetes, um herói grego da Guerra de Troia, como expressão do arquétipo da vítima. Por meio da proposta de sua tipologia mítica e da leitura simbólica do mito, depreendem-se possibilidades de compreensão da permanência e da saída da dor, levando em conta os excessos e as faltas contidos na hybris do herói.

This article explores the character Philoctetes, a hero in Greek Trojan war, as an archetypal expression of the victim. The proposal of his mythical typology and a symbolic analysis of the myth allow new possibilities of comprehension on the subject of permanence and departure from pain, taking the lacks and excesses within the hero's hybris into account.