Book, Freud v.09 (1909-1910) Observations on a case of neurosis[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Observations on a case of obsessional neurosis (the case of the "Rat Man") is one of the five great clinical cases reported by Freud. Its protagonist is a young lawyer who suffers from classic symptoms of obsessional neurosis, such as terrible ideas that always return and that require the fulfillment of certain rituals so that they do not become reality. One of these obsessions - which came to characterize the patient - is that an oriental torture involving rats will be inflicted on his father and the woman he loves. Freud seeks to elucidate the infantile origins of this neurosis and the ambivalent feelings that govern it. A childhood memory of Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous and controversial psychoanalytic study of an artistic personality. The memory to which the title refers can be found in Leonardo's notes: when he was a child, still in his crib, a bird approached him and hit his mouth several times with its tail. Based on this and other information, Freud sees relationships between Leonardo's art and his very peculiar childhood, and offers a psychoanalytic explanation for the homosexuality of the author of the Mona Lisa. Five lessons in psychoanalysis, one of the best known of the many popular texts written by Freud, are the lectures he presented at an American university in 1909. Contributions to the psychology of love brings together three essays: "On a special type of object choice by man ", in which the chosen woman must belong to someone else and have a reputation for being "easy"; "On the most common depreciation in love life", in which man's psychic impotence is due to the separation between affection and sensuality; and "The virginity taboo", about this phenomenon in primitive societies and, in its attenuated form, in civilized ones. This is the eighth release in the Freud collection. The next two will be volume 13, with the Introductory Conferences on Psychoanalysis, and volume 17, with Inhibition, symptom and anguish, The future of an illusion, The question of lay analysis and other texts.