Uma ética a serviço do sujeito

Abstract

This paper aims at discussing the fundaments of psychoanalysis, in order to give an overview of how the psychoanalyst operates in his/her practice, thus delineating what is known as a clinic of desire – the traditional device of psychoanalysis, seeking to understand the way in which the analytical device operates with the subject under analysis, as well as, envision possible scopes and limitations analysis, both from a cultural perspective, as taking the psychoanalytic framework of the theoretical, technical and practical point of view, in order to understand what some authors have discussed about the position taken by the subject in contemporary times, who contributed to build this same theoretical framework were used. As well as texts of secondary references, commentators who explore and clarify themes and concepts developed by Freud and Lacan throughout their theoretical constructs.