Citation

Massa ESC, França CP. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental 2016; 19(2): 287-302.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016)

DOI

10.1590/1415-4714.2016v19n2p287.7

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper presents the first psychoanalytic elaborations concerning the topic of suicide theme, primarily from the records of the Psychoanalytic Society of Vienna's Wednesday meetings. This discussion provides a central point for understanding the self-extermination theme: its intrinsic relationship with the object relations and with unconscious sexuality. There is still an impasse on these elaborations, which we can, retrospectively, attribute to the lack of elaborations that only later would be built in psychoanalytic theory, with the advent of the death drive. © 2009 Associação Universitária de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental/University Association for Research in Fundamental Psychopathology.

Language: pt

Keywords

Suicide; Object relations; Melancholy; Death drive