A contradição na constituição psíquica : recalque e denegação

Abstract

This project makes a bibliographical study with the aim of getting a better understanding of the possibility of the contradiction — conceived in its dialectical dimension — to contribute to the comprehension of the establishment and function of a psychic subject. To accomplish this objective, we focused some of the most important metapsychological Freudian texts that deal with the unconscious and also repression. In these texts the aspects of contradiction, blocking and denial were emphasized to best meet Freudian’s formulation about denying showed in a particular text. It was taken in consideration the equivalence of some aspects of repression and denying, as the confluence of different instinctual drives and opposite representations in those mechanisms. The contradiction appears as an index of the opposition between the two systems posited by Freud – unconscious and pre-conscious/conscious –, and also reveals the way by which the ambivalence of the drives contributes decisively to understand psychic functioning, the thought and some of its functions.