Maud Mannoni e a experiência analítica

Abstract

This thesis is based on the experience of Maud Mannoni and, as it goes through her trajectory, it goes around the history of the psychoanalytic movement. We have two levels of scope and approach: the Maud’s individual history and the collective history of psychoanalysis. Two periods of work that are articulated in a double axis of investigation: the formation of the analyst and the transmission of psychoanalysis. This is because, when we follow the path of a psychoanalyst, we are undoubtedly referred to the path of psychoanalysis itself. When considering the central place that unconscious transmission occupies, we refer both to the process of expansion and institutionalization of psychoanalysis, as well as to the analytical course. Particularly in relation to Maud Mannoni, her work, in addition to dialoguing intensely with the history of psychoanalysis in several fields, whether clinical, political or theoretical, demonstrates how much the confrontational position of this psychoanalyst was established in the fight against dogmatic referrals to which psychoanalysis, at times, was conducted. We can observe her criticisms of the traditions that preceded her, as well as her considerations of the tradition in which she was inserted. Her propositions, moreover, extended to the sphere of culture, having in the founding of the Experimental School of Bonneuil its emblematic expression. She contributed and advanced, in different ways, psychoanalytic research and its ethics, understanding her investigation as a knowledge that emerges, fundamentally, from the experience with the unconscious. She understood, therefore, that the passage from analysand to analyst, which keeps psychoanalysis alive, was at the same time the central point around which many problems were produced over the generations of psychoanalysts. Maud Mannoni’s formulations led us, therefore, to reflections about the indispensable work of mourning, thought, on the one hand, with regard to institutional ties and theory, when questioning the sectarian dimensions that run through these fields in the history of the psychoanalytic movement; on the other hand, the crossing of the subject under analysis, in the form of passages that involve the relationship between lack, loss and cause. Mourning to which the analytic experience is equivalent in its bonding work that points to the real.