‘No memory, no desire’: psychoanalysis in Brazil during repressive times

Until recently, the growth and significance of Brazilian psychoanalysis has been neglected in histories of psychoanalysis. Not only is this history long and rich in its professional and cultural dimensions, but there was an especially important ‘event’ – the so-called ‘Cabernite-Lobo affair’ – that took place during the period of the military dictatorship, which can be seen as dramatising some of the issues concerning the erasure of memory in psychoanalysis, especially in connection with political difficulties. In this paper, we provide an outline of the origins and dissemination of psychoanalysis in Brazil before looking again at the Cabernite-Lobo affair in order to examine in a situated way how psychoanalysis engages with political extremism, and particularly to explore the consequences of an unthinking generalisation of the idea of ‘neutrality’ from the consulting room to the institutional setting. We draw especially on Brazilian papers in Portuguese, which have not been accessible in the English-language psychoanalytic literature

“Se viveres como louco, sabes que hás de morrer sem juízo”: as orientações para o bem morrer na literatura cristã portuguesa do século XVIII

Resumo Orientar os fiéis para uma vida santificada e instruí-los para uma boa morte foram objetivos muito comuns na literatura religiosa portuguesa do período moderno, especialmente aquela divulgada no século XVIII e que se propunha a definir e propagar virtudes morais e comportamentos que garantissem o bem morrer. Nosso objetivo, neste artigo, é o de analisar as orientações que todo fiel católico deveria observar como preparação prévia para a morte nas obras Sermão da Missão da quarta tarde da quaresma (1734), Terceiro Instruído na Virtude (1742) e Mestre da Virtude(1745), produzidas pelo padre dominicano português João Franc