Rui Maia Diamantino’s research while affiliated with Federal University of Bahia and other places

This paper discusses some aspects of transference love and countertransference from episodes of American TV series In Treatment involving the patient (Laura) and her psychoanalyst (Paul). It is considered that although the filmic fiction does not give the necessary elements for the analysis of a clinical case, the content depicted in In Treatment does not distance itself from the desire issues the analyst might face in the relationship with their patients. This approach unfolds a number of issues that still need to be developed by those that practice Psychoanalysis in the place of the analyst.

This paper makes an analysis of the characters of the film "Cama de gato" using the theme of the symptom and its presentations in contemporary. From the concept of symptom in Freud and Lacan in Synthome concept, develop the following questions: there psychoanalytic symptom in the enjoyment of neoliberal society? Without the paternal function effectively to intervene as a mediator between the subject and object of enjoyment, castration has been effective in human relations?

This paper seeks to establish a dialogue with Externalism as stated in the Putnam´s article "The meaning of 'meaning'", published in 1986, and two articles published in 2007: “Mente, mundo e autoconhecimento: uma apresentação do externalismo” written by Silva Filho and “Normatividade e linguagem privada” written by Machado. Attempts to articulate the private language and public language with the psychoanalytic theory of jokes (Witz in the original German) discussed by Freud in his article "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious". The proposition is made in order to understand what actually can be conceived by private language and public language and questioning the limits of these concepts, arising from Externalism, appear before the phenomenology of the unconscious, whose notion of being structured like a language, established by Lacan, carries within itself a counterpoint to Externalism, since the conception of an unconscious means "mind" and "subjectivity" in the strictly private, "knowledge not known" that only the subject of the unconscious can come to know through the psychoanalytic transference.