Clinical Styles. The Journal on the vicissitudes of childhood
Estilos da Clinica. Revista sobre a Infância com problemas aims to support an editorial space of an interdisciplinary nature, having psychoanalysis as a guideline. It is focused on the discussion of childhood vicissitudes as well as on the discussion of family and school education. Journal open access.
O envio dos manuscritos deverá ser acompanhado de Carta à Comissão Executiva solicitando a publicação. Na carta, o(s) autor(es) deve(m) informar eventuais conflitos de interesse - profissionais, financeiros e benefícios diretos ou indiretos - que possam vir a influenciar os resultados da pesquisa. Devem, ainda, revelar as fontes de financiamento envolvidas no trabalho, bem como garantir a privacidade e o anonimato das pessoas envolvidas. Portanto, o(s) autor(es) deve(m) informar os procedimentos da aprovação da pesquisa pelo Comitê de Ética da instituição do(s) pesquisador(es) com o número do parecer. O material deve ser acompanhado também de uma Declaração de Direito Autoral assinada por todo(s) o(s) autor(es) atestando o ineditismo do trabalho, conforme o seguinte modelo: Eu, Rinaldo Voltolini, concedo à revista o direito de primeira publicação e declaro que o artigo intitulado Sobre uma política de acolhimento de professores em situação de inclusão, apresentado para publicação na revista Estilos da Clínica, não foi publicado ou apresentado para avaliação e publicação em nenhuma outra revista ou livro, sendo, portanto, original.
Estilos da Clínica: 30 years
Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Cristina Machado Kupfer, Rinaldo Voltolini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Em um retorno ao estilo clínico do Lugar de vida, este artigo aborda a trajetória da conjunção disjuntiva entre educar e clinicar, no tratamento de crianças que excedem, sobremaneira, os saberes instituídos. Tal estilo considera a especificidade com que cada criança, de certa maneira, é retida em pontos de colisão com a linguagem, sustendo uma posição subjetiva restrita à biunivocidade de circuitos-curtos. Cernindo os traços que a capturam ao operar a função da repetição e da transferência tais como concebidas pela psicanálise, esse estilo exponencia as sombras dos esparsos liames em que algo da criança se insinua na cinética do corpo para, com ela, construir outras modalidades de aproximação à alteridade, visando transpor a condição de ser falado para ser falante.
Copyright (c) 2025 Angela Vorcaro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
What does an analyst believe during the first consultation with a child and their parents?
In this article, we intend to analyze the dimension of the analyst's belief, its place and dynamics in conducting an analysis. Based on Lacan's construction that "psychoanalysis is found in the place of treating the religiosity of the symptom or neurosis as a private religion," we will develop three instances of the analyst's belief – the a priori of their listening; the analyst's knowledge; the supposed knowledge – in order to consider a necessary secularity that involves the analyst in their work. To this end, we will analyze the case of a boy whose particular symptoms, which motivated the consultation, proved to constitute a sympthom of the couple. The direction of the treatment should therefore aim at the deconstruction of the belief in this sympthom that involves everyone – a deconstruction of the same type that involves the analyst in their end of analysis.
Copyright (c) 2025 Robert Levy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Neurosis, psychosis, and perversion. The contemporary relevance of structures in Lacanian clinical practice.
Copyright (c) 2025 Fernanda de Sousa e Castro Noya Pinto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Freudian metapsychology and its vicissitudes
The text addresses the developments of Freudian metapsychology in relation to the issues that concern psychoanalysts today, highlighting the radical intertwining of the individual and the collective that runs throughout Freud&#39;s work. It emphasizes the fictional aspect of metapsychological constructions and their close connection to the sublimatory operation, within the drive for knowledge that underlies the process of knowledge production.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Maria Loffredo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Inclusion and Reticular Transference in the Spiral of Our Time
Celebrating thirty years of a publication devoted to addressing what does not work within educational institutions from a psychoanalytic perspective invites us to reflect on time and its historicity. The figure of the spiral offers an opportunity to rethink the structural void that inhabits us, as well as the repetitions and their possible new beginnings, necessary to reinvent, each time, the educational bond. Deconstructing the misunderstanding of the split between the individual and the social produces effects within the clinical settings that deal with the paradoxes of educational inclusion, and distinguishing subjective positions may guide reticular transference as an opportunity for its elaboration.
Copyright (c) 2025 Perla Zelmanovich https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Writing and singularity in the inclusion and schooling of autistic students: a counterpoint to behavioral logic
This article problematizes the use of behavioral methods and techniques in the inclusion and schooling of autistic students. The authors criticize the standardization logic that guides these methods, arguing that they seek to suppress behaviors considered "undesirable" by failing to consider the subjectivity of autistic children. In contrast, they propose a work inspired by psychoanalysis, considering educational practice from an ethical perspective, which considers the student as the subject and is attentive to the uniqueness of each individual within the collective school environment. In this context, writing activities are conceived as a new possibility for language production, allowing autistic students to construct, in their own way, a pathway to symbolic meaning.
Copyright (c) 2025 Karinne Ledjane Vieira Pinto, Viviane Neves Legnani, Sandra Francesca Conte Almeida https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Notes for a discussion on the differential diagnosis between Autism and Psychosis in Childhood
The objective of this article is to contribute with theoretical and clinical notes to the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic and autistic children, considering their main differences. Comparative elements for a differential diagnosis are presented: the transferential position, the place of the Other, the body image, the relationship with the object. Hypotheses are presented about the structural mechanisms of each clinical cadre, to support the direction of treatment, specifying the work with children and their parents. Finally, the specificities of the work of school inclusion in each case are addressed, emphasizing the role of writing. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of considering the differences between these two clinics in clinical and educational work.
Copyright (c) 2025 Leda Mariza Fischer Bernardino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Clinic in judicial institutions with contemporary children. The validity of the invention of psychoanalysis
The question of the status of a psychoanalytic clinic for contemporary children, calls me to review the legacy of psychoanalysis with children. As well as to share diverse experiences in which it becomes possible to listen differentially to those who have been ignored, for so long, by a system more prepared for its own protection than for that of its users. In our case, child subjects who require the intervention of Others so that their voices can have the prominence that their wounded lives require. Children whose life experiences, their upbringing conditions, and the decisions regarding those matters that concern them are subject to and influenced by the complexity of the legal-social apparatus.
Copyright (c) 2025 Mercedes Minnicelli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Anchoring: from listening to the Anas to testimonial writing
This article addresses situations of intrafamilial sexual abuse of children assisted in institutions of the Social Welfare policy in southern Brazil. The objective is to analyze the repercussions of experiences of sexual violence in the lives of these children whose trajectories are situated in critical social contexts. In addition, we propose to discuss what can be configured as anchoring ties for them. Theoretically, the work is supported by Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis. The study is supported by the psychoanalytic method and was based on chronicles about situations of sexual abuse inspired by the narratives of four girls assisted by the aforementioned policy, of which one of the researchers was a member. The conclusions emphasize the complexity and severity of the impacts of sexual violence in childhood, highlighting the importance of the anchoring role for these girls.
Copyright (c) 2025 Marjorie Dariane da Silva Machado, Luciane De Conti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The greek roots of psychoanalytic psychopathology
This work aims to demonstrate how psychoanalysis rescues important precepts from Ancient Greece for the construction of its psychopathology. In the same way that Lacan attempted to make a return to Freud in his teaching, due to the emergence of new authors who adulterated the theory of the father of psychoanalysis, we aim to demonstrate that Freud also made another return, more retroactive, in the face of a context that also reversed the psychopathological conception by reducing psychic suffering to pre-defined categories, such as eminently organic, cerebral or even behavioral phenomena. We will present a myriad of Greek principles that re-emerge with psychoanalytic theory. Finally, we will analyze the conception of harmony and how psychoanalysis advances in relation to Ancient Greek medicine on this last topic.
Copyright (c) 2025 Renato Jesus Aparecido de Praga Palma, Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Clinical listening and intervention with infants: weaving the threads of a possible experience
This study is based on bibliographic research grounded in the reading of authors who, from psychoanalytic frameworks, reflect on aspects present in the construction of clinical practice with infants. It examines the necessary conditions for psychic constitution and development as achievements to be built in the infant, considering the fundamental role and function of the parental Other in exercising these functions to enable such achievements. It also addresses the importance of early-care professionals acquiring knowledge about detecting developmental risk signs to facilitate referrals for early intervention when the clinical case requires it. For this purpose, the IRDI instrument (Indicators of Psychic Risk for Child Development) is considered a reference for detecting signs that something may be wrong with the infant.
Copyright (c) 2025 Jéssica Paula Gonçalves, Kenia Spolti Freire https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The function of language in Freud and Lacan from Benveniste's perspective: implications for thinking about the clinic of language disorders.
This article investigates the relationship between concepts of Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis and concepts of Émile Benveniste's linguistics, aiming to contribute to the understanding of language disorders in childhood. The analysis examines, through Benveniste’s perspective, the function of language in Freud’s work. Thus, it revisits the Benveniste-Freud debate, exploring Freud’s reading of the German philologist Karl Abel, whose theory on "primitive languages" is said to have influenced Freud in formulating hypotheses about psychic functioning. Based on this theoretical framework, a case of language disorder is presented, illustrating the theoretical connection made. Through this analysis, the article seeks to demonstrate how the discussed concepts can shed light on the clinical approach to childhood language disorders. Finally, it reaffirms the importance of the interface between psychoanalysis and linguistics in investigating the processes of subjectivation and the constitution of language in childhood.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Paula Ramos de Souza, Dr. Valdir do Nascimento Flores https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The new school order and the utilitarian legacy of progressive education
This article addresses the issue of utilitarianism in the new neoliberal school order. From the field of Education and Psychoanalysis, it discusses the mutation of the old spirit of capitalism (capitalism of the Protestant ethic) towards the new spirit of capitalism (neoliberal capitalism). It is proposed that this mutation has caused a desublimation which has given prominence to utilitarian jouissance to the detriment of the usufruct of desire. It then reflects on how neoliberalism, drawing on the legacy of progessive education, colonized the school system at the end of the 20th century, subjecting it to expressions of utilitarian enjoyment: productivism, innovationism, evaluationism and managerialism. In conclusion, the article dwells on the problem of the teacher's place in this apparatus and concludes that the teacher is reduced to an object of jouissance in the new school order.
Copyright (c) 2025 Douglas Emiliano Batista https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Construction of meanings in the experience of motherhood in the context of toxoplasmosis: longitudinal study of multiple cases
The birth of a baby with toxoplasmosis is a condition that will accompany the development of the mother-baby dyad. A longitudinal study of multiple cases was fulfilled with the aim of understanding the meanings constructed over time regarding the experience of motherhood in the context of the child's diagnosis of toxoplasmosis. Three mothers were interviewed at two different moments, three years apart. It was possible for the participants to integrate the toxoplasmosis experience into their way of mothering and their identity over time, although the presence of sequelae and the lack of family support were identified as complicators of this process. It was concluded that diagnosing gestational or postnatal toxoplasmosis demands the attribution of unique meanings that allow for creative investment and the continuity of being of mother and child.
Copyright (c) 2025 Mariana Gonçalves Rossi, Carolina Schmitt Colomé, Jana Gonçalves Zappe https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Double-bind relationships and the experience of denial in the family
Family psychotherapy in cases of violence reveals that affective bonds often shape family dynamics and communication around the tragic and the traumatic. This study aims to investigate the concept of the double bond, proposed by Gregory Bateson (1956), present in childhood, and the notions of trauma and denial developed by Sándor Ferenczi (1933/1992). The approach articulates psychoanalytic and systemic theories, exploring complementarities and respecting their differences. Understanding family relationships harmful becomes an essential tool in the management of cases, since the clinic offers a privileged space for the recognition and symbolisation of trauma.
Copyright (c) 2025 Camilla Soares Viana Gonçalves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Transsexuality and gender from the perspective of Melanie Klein
This article proposes a reflection on transsexuality and gender issues through the lens of Melanie Klein’s theory. It discusses the contributions of the concepts of the schizoparanoid and depressive positions to understanding the psychic processes involved in trans experience. Drawing on Klein’s ideas about ego-splitting, it examines the role of unconscious fantasies and primary bonds in the constitution of gender identity. The text also addresses the dynamics of these positions, emphasising the significance of the capacity for reparation in emotional development. The central aim is to broaden the debate between psychoanalysis, gender and the social context, offering a more inclusive and comprehensive reading of trans lives.
Palavras-chave: identidade de gênero; fantasia do casal combinado; Melanie Klein.
Copyright (c) 2025 Alexandre Patricio de Almeida https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The psychic ABCD of babies: a study with early childhood education supervisors
This study used the Indicadores Clínicos de Risco/Referência para o Desenvolvimento Infantil (Irdi) instrument with supervisors of Municipal Early Childhood Education Centers (Neims). The research, of a qualitative-quantitative approach, aimed to monitor the effects of Irdi formative methodology seminars on supervisors' perspectives and listening skills regarding the bond between caregiver and baby, the role of the teacher, and aspects of psychic development. The results indicated an assimilation of the concepts of child psychic development present in the teacher-baby relationship, the de-characterization of Irdi as a diagnostic tool, and an interest in the operations essential to the formation of the psychic subject and mental health in early childhood. This study highlights the importance of replicating this formative methodology with teachers and assistants of the Neims in Florianópolis.
Copyright (c) 2025 Rômulo Fabiano Silva Vargas, Loiva Lucia Herbert, Caroline de Souza Mattos, Laura de Macedo Haeser, Maria Cristina Machado Kupfer https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Therapeutic Consultations: A Place for the Family in the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Clinic
The psychoanalytic clinic with children and adolescents presents a singularity due to the involvement of third parties in the analytical process, especially the family, which requires rethinking the framework to include them. This article investigates Winnicott’s model of therapeutic consultations as a device for listening and intervening with the family, considering its potential and limitations as a space capable of containing and transforming parental anxieties. A narrative literature review was conducted, beginning with a brief historical overview that contextualizes the emergence of this clinical practice, from which the case of Mrs. X is analyzed. This is followed by the presentation of Brazilian studies from the past decade that support the use of therapeutic consultations with families as a valuable resource in child and adolescent psychoanalytic practice.
Copyright (c) 2025 Clara Alves Diniz, Deise Matos do Amparo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The analyst in the school institution: a place of extimacy?
This article presents a reflection about the place of the psychoanalyst in the school institution. To this purpose, it takes a brief historical look at the presence of psychologists in schools, considering how their work, linked to the medical discourse, contributed to segregation and production of school failure. It concludes that, although school psychology in Brazil has produced a vast critical reading of its initial work, there’s currently a return to the medical discourse as a determining factor in reading of school symptoms, disregarding the various factors involved in the teaching-learning process. Finally, the article analyzes the specificities of the association between psychoanalysis and education, marked by the meeting of two impossibilities, and presents the concept of extimacy as a guide for thinking about the psychoanalys’ place in schools.
Paula Cristina Barbosa de Carvalho Tavares
Copyright (c) 2025 Paula Cristina Barbosa de Carvalho Tavares, Nádia Laguárdia de Lima https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The support of constitutive functions in the process of subjectivation of babies in institutional care
This theoretical review study aims to reflect on the subjectivation of babies placed in institutional care and to discuss the support of the constituent functions by the caregiver in this context. Initially, a historical contextualization of child welfare services in Brazil is presented, highlighting its assistentialist and institutionalizing bias. Then, the subjectivation of the baby is discussed, emphasizing the importance of constituent functions in this process, as well as the risks that may arise when this bond is absent. Finally, the study outlines the challenges that may emerge in institutional care and how they interfere with the relationship between the caregiver and the baby. It is essential to create spaces for caregiver support to aid in the sustenance of the constituent functions, thereby enabling a form of care that transcends the physical body and prioritizes the subject.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ketlin Forgiarini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
“Diagnose me or I’ll devour you!”: diagnosis and symptom in analytical work with adolescents
This work was built based on concerns that emerge in face of the intensification of the search for psychiatric diagnoses for adolescents. We propose to think on what these diagnostic reading keys intend to point out and, at the same time, hide, regarding malaise in adolescence. For this, we used clinical vignettes in conjunction with the psychoanalytic theory. When conceiving adolescence as a moment that marks a subjective position, it is possible to question whether these psychiatric diagnoses can create a barrier in the process of subjective constitution, obstructing the adolescent’s saying about themself. Thus, drawing on the study of psychoanalytic psychopathology, we aim to explore the formation of the adolescent symptom and of what predominantly appears in contemporary clinical practice as a phenomenon of medicalization.
Copyright (c) 2025 Yasmim Marques de Souza, Anamaria Silva Neves, João Luiz Leitão Paravidini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The experience of the breakdown of family bonds in children residing in a shelter institution
This study aimed to investigate how children residing in a foster care institution express the experience of breaking ties with their family of origin. Case studies were conducted with boys and girls, aged six to ten, residing in the Gurupi-TO Casa Cidadã foster care institution. As research instruments, interviews with a psychologist were conducted, followed by playful interviews with children using the family story drawing procedure. Some feelings, behaviors, and symptoms were identified as expressions of loss. Aggression, delinquency, emotional deprivation, learning difficulties in school, and ambivalent feelings toward the family were among the research findings. It was observed that these symptoms reflect the grieving process, and understanding them enables comprehension of behaviors associated with grief processing and repair.
Copyright (c) 2025 Isabella Mascarenhas Melo, Dhênia Bezerra dos Santos, Daniela Ponciano Oliveira, Ellen Fernanda Klinger, Jéssica Pingarilho Batista https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Psychoanalysis in institutions for children and adolescents: history and its impasses
The manuscript aims to reflect on the presence of Psychoanalysis in public policies for childhood and adolescence in Brazil. We start by examining experiences of social participation of psychoanalysis with children in different contexts: the practice of children's homes in bolshevik Russia; collective education in kibbutzim, and the French experience at Maison Verte. By highlighting the impasses faced by these different experiences and the history of psychoanalytic practices in the social context, we see the ruptures that promote disruptions, especially regarding the integration of child psychoanalysis in Brazil. It is concluded that the perspective of recovering historical and social memories provides important insights to think about the current psychoanalytic praxis in the country and points to our responsibility to sustain the relationship between Psychoanalysis and its political implications.
Copyright (c) 2025 Laura Resende Moreira, Fuad Kyrillos Neto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
From crossing the wailing wall to the art of conquest: a psychoanalytic intervention with teachers
This article is characterized by the presentation of a psychoanalytic intervention carried out in a Escola Cidadã Integral with primary and secondary school teachers. It considers the analysis of teaching malaise in accordance with the perspective of psychoanalysis with a Freudo-Lacanian orientation. For this, as methodology, an intervention research was carried out, using the device of conversation in order to offer the floor to teachers, through the technique of free association. For the analysis of the 09 conversations, the theoretical framework of psychoanalysis was used and the occurrence of the meetings were divided according to the assumptions of Lacan's logical time, leaving a first time for the moment of seeing, later the moment of understanding and the time to complete. The climax of the article concerns the speeches of the teachers themselves, considering them the main sources for reflection on the dialogue between the field of education and psychoanalysis in accordance with contemporary sociopolitical issues.
Copyright (c) 2025 Erilânia Mendes, Karynna Magalhães Barros da Nóbrega https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The malaise in Justice: between demand and desire
This article addresses the contribution of Psychoanalysis to the Justice system. Family conflicts are analyzed, especially with regard to the place of the child in the face of their parent’s malaise. Families that seek the Judiciary begin to live, based on judicialized parental ties, in which the word is worn out and dominated by judicial procedures. Contradictions and impasses in the subjective position of the parents are present, which can aggravate the conflicts. Children and adolescents are subjected to the unresolved marital remains of their parents, becoming objects in this family dynamic. Concomitantly, families have had difficulty in conducting parental exercise, through authority, allowing their children to decide. It is known that it is not up to the Justice system to establish parental functions, however, through Psychoanalysis, it is possible to touch on the singularity of the subjects that present themselves. The aim is to identify and give consistency to the desire underlying the various demands that arise from family conflicts, making the subject emerge from the unconscious in consonance with the subject of rights.
Copyright (c) 2025 Cássia Maria Rosato https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Discomfort, subjects and education: contributions to teacher training
Copyright (c) 2025 Candice Marques de Lima https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The concept of the combined parent figure and gender identity: psychoanalytic reflections based on Melanie Klein
The purpose of this article is to investigate and discuss the childhood fantasy discovered by Klein, called the combined parent figure, and its possible relationships with the constitution of gender identity. To achieve this, a journey was undertaken through Klein's work using the methodology of a type of psychoanalytic research called research-investigation, where a concept or theme is followed in its formulation as well as in its epistemological and theoretical-technical developments within the same work and in those directly derived or influenced by it. It was observed that the combined parent figure, which represents in the child's psyche the union and intertwining of the mother and father—forming a monstrous and enigmatic being that the child must decipher—also lies at the root of the infant's early identifications with their parents, constituting the beginning of the superego, the primitive Oedipus complex, and also the core of gender identity. Unlike the more rigid and binary identificatory structure implied by the traditional Oedipus complex, the more primitive dynamic brought by the fantasy of the combined parents offers the child a possibility of more fluid and complex gender identifications, which remain embedded in them as a prototypical core that can be accessed in future identifications.
Copyright (c) 2025 Rosiléia Alves Barbosa, Marcos Leandro Klipan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The voice of the child victim of sexual violence: what can interdisciplinary listening achieve?
This study aimed to analyze the reverberations of the child’s voice, speech, and revelation regarding situations of intrafamilial/incestuous sexual violence with an emphasis on the analysis of a clinical case and the discussion of the traumatic in the family context. Methodologically, the research was based on a case study constructed from the care provided to a 10-year-old child and her mother at a clinic specialized in attending to victims of sexual violence. The analysis highlighted several interpretative points: the power of care that provides the child with conditions for discursive production; the importance of genuine spaces of silence for the voice to echo, reveal, and shape the pain according to the child’s time and desire. Giving voice to the child meant offering interdisciplinary, engaged, institutional listening within a clinical-political practice, an ethical dimension that encompasses the discourse of the suffering child.
Copyright (c) 2025 Diego Gomes Pires, Anamaria Silva Neves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Copyright (c) 2024 Rinaldo Voltolini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0