Book, Freud clinical histories: five paradigmatic clinical psychoanalytic cases[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Throughout his life, Freud published five great clinical stories, which became the paradigmatic cases of psychoanalytic clinic, both for their successes and their impasses. Dora, Hans, Rat Man, Schreber and Wolf Man are, at the same time, proper names of singular cases and paradigms of the structures and clinical types they index. In writing these stories, the sensitive listening of the psychoanalyst attentive to detail and the unparalleled talent of the narrator who wrote his cases like novels stand out. It was Freud himself who insisted on the joint publication of these five cases, brought together for the first time in a single volume in Brazil, offering the reader an overview of the most famous clinical cases in psychoanalysis. In this volume, the translation sought not only to reprint and re-edit, in Brazilian Portuguese, the contents presented by Freud, but also to adapt them to the reality of Brazilian readers – specialists or not –, providing them with a vision of both the textual surfaces as apparent as, whenever possible, the internal layers, the subtext, the most hidden presuppositions in Freud's texts, indelibly marked by a style that mixes the scientific and the literary. Essential reading for both psychoanalysts and those interested in knowing how each subject invents ways of living with their symptoms and psychological suffering.