Considerações sobre a trajetória do conceito de defesa em Freud e sua retomada por Lacan

Abstract

The article presents the evolution of the concept of defense in Freud's work, its relations with the structure mode of the psychism and its symptomatic production resumed in the teachings of Lacan. Starts from the study of pre-psychoanalytic texts to analyze the foundations of Freud's concept of defense, then related to resistance treated as a clinical reflection of repression. It then examines the relationship between resistance and analytical clinic in the first topic and the role of the self as a promoter of self-defense. Then, the article analyzes the reflexes of the second topic in relation to the concept of defense. Finally, it focuses on the clinical implications of the failure of defense mechanisms causing formations such as symptoms and changes of the self. In Lacan, the defense is taken from his criticism of the post-Freudian analysis and defenses, as well as his understanding of desire constituted as a defense against enjoyment.