Fragments of two cases of patients treated by Charcot

background linked to desires to travel and multiple sclerosis symptoms

  • Elise Alves dos Santos Universidade de Brasília-UNB, Brasília, DF
  • Luiz Augusto Monnerat Celes Universidade de Brasília-UNB, Brasília, DF
  • Cristina Lindenmeyer Saint Martin Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris
Keywords: Charcot’s patients, Desires to travel, Multiple sclerosis symptoms, Body, Oedipus complex

Abstract

Two fragments of unpublished cases attended by Jean-Martin Charcot (James Lévy and Sioen) are presented. We try to think of them from psychoanalytic considerations about flashes of the history of two young people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, whose experiences are marked by the escape from where they were and the “powerful desires to travel”. The trajectory of travels, carried out at times of change experienced by each patient, was marked by the emergence of somatic manifestations of multiple sclerosis. The discussion about the Oedipus complex is related to a kind of behavioral manifestation, strongly associated with the sick body’s expression domain.

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Psicóloga Clínica e do Trabalho. Servidora efetiva no Núcleo de Psicologia do Centro de Referência em Saúde do Trabalhador do Estado de Goiás. Psicanalista - Instituto Sedes Sapientiae.
Doutora em Psicologia Clínica e Cultura pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Sanduíche na
Université Sorbonne - Paris 7. Goiânia, GO, Brasil.

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Psicanalista. Especialidade em Psicologia Clínica (CFP). Doutor em Psicologia Clínica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Pós-doutorado pela Universidade Católica da Lovaina (UCL-Bélgica), pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) e pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Pesquisador colaborador sênior do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Clínica e Cultura pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Professor titular aposentado do Departamento de Psicologia Clínica da Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Brasília, DF, Brasil.

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Psychoanalyst, Doctor in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis, Professor in the department of Études Psychanalytiques at UFR IHSS research director at Center Psychanalyse, Médecine et Sociétéda Université Paris 7 Diderot

Published
05-08-2020
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SANTOS, E.; CELES, L.; SAINT MARTIN, C. Fragments of two cases of patients treated by Charcot. Cadernos de Psicanálise | CPRJ, v. 42, n. 42, p. 189-204, 5 ago. 2020.