No. 15 (2007): Family and the unconscious I

In listening to the "infantile" dimension in his patients, Freud discovered the unconscious and observed that they spoke incessantly about their families. If civilization is constituted through the clash and necessary opposition between generations—where neurosis testifies to the impasse in breaking free from parental authority—psychoanalysis reveals that the family transmits not only rules, but also the signifiers and the linguistic misunderstandings that weave the subject’s destiny, intertwining the unconscious, family histories, and symptoms.

In this 15th volume of the journal *Stylus*—a biannual publication of the Association of Forums of the Lacanian Field (AFCL) dedicated to the theme "Family and the Unconscious I," the central focus of the 8th National Meeting held in Aracaju—psychoanalysts and researchers investigate the family not as a mere social or biological arrangement, but as a psychic reality. Through conceptual reflections, dialogues with literature, and clinical vignettes, this edition examines how signifiers and the parental web structure the transmission of neurosis, the impasses of desire, and the subject’s symptomatic responses.

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Table of Contents

Editorial
7 – Andréa Brunetto

Essays
11 – Carmem Gallano: Family and the Unconscious
25 – Elza Ferreira Santos: *Archaic Tillage* (*Lavoura Arcaica*): A Family, a Complex of Love and Ashes
35 – Fabiano Chagas Rabelo: The Transmission of Neurosis in Family Relations in *One Hundred Years of Solitude*

Critical Engagement with Concepts
45 – Bernard Nominé: The Symptom and the Family Structure
57 – Ana Laura Prates Pacheco: Generalized Childhood in Contemporary Society: What Can the Psychoanalytic Apparatus Do in the Face of the Apparatus of "Infantilization"?
73 – Manuel Baldiz: Variations on the End of Analysis and Their Impact on the Training of Analysts

Direction of the Treatment
91 – Alba Abreu Lima: The Tragic Dimension of the Subject’s Choice
101 – Maria Vitoria Bittencourt: The Child: A Mark of What Interest?
111 – Consuelo Pereira de Almeida: A Subject Between Desire and Devastation

Interview
121 – Ana Laura Prates Pacheco e Silva Franco interview Luis Izcovich: The Relationship Between the Forums and the School

Book Reviews
137 – Andréa Rodrigues: *Modalidade do gozo* [Modality of *Jouissance*], edited by José Antônio Pereira
141 – Hélio Tavares da Silva Martins: *Comédias familiares: Rei Édipo, Príncipe Hamlet, Irmãos Karamázovi* [Family Comedies: King Oedipus, Prince Hamlet, The Brothers Karamazov], by Jairo Gerbase

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Editorial Team
Andréa Brunetto (coordinator)
Andréa Hortélio Fernandes
Alba Abreu Lima
Daniela Scheinkman-Chatelard
Maria Helena Martinho