Os impasses no acesso ao saber na clínica psicanalítica com crianças

Abstract

This research investigates childrens relations to knowledge. Its point of departure is the clinical practice with children who have demonstrated impasses in accessing school knowledge and have revealed, during an analytical investigation, an unconscious web where knowledge takes a place in the family symptom. The presentation of clinical fragments aims to guide the construction of this Masters thesis theoretical pathway. These are fragments of two clinical cases in which childrens impasses towards accessing knowledge were found. This works wager is that the suspension of school knowledge is a consequence of the suspension of knowledge about fundamental features of the subjects history, which refer to knowledge in the unconscious. Based on Freudian elaborations about infantile sexual curiosity and its relationship with the interest towards other knowledges, this Masters thesis also approaches the peculiarity with which analytic discourse considers the child as the subject bearer of a knowledge. Furthermore, it presents formulations about the connection between a childs symptom and the family, analyzing the formulation of Lacanian discourses to address the issue of knowledge, as well as debating the relation between demand and desire, regarding the subjects relation to the Other. Ultimately, we present a study about the structural disjunction between knowledge and truth, in which we consider that the access to knowledge refers to an impasse, once it is impossible to know a subjects entire truth, for access to it is only available half-said.