Between Freud and Abraham: a study of drives and object relations in the foundations of psychoanalysis

• Autor(a) principal: Turato Junior, Ercílio Domingos
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Campos, Érico Bruno Viana, Bochhi, Josiane Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia Revista (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/psicorevista/article/view/45294
• topic: Psicanálise; Teoria pulsional; Relações de objeto; Sexualidade; Psicoanálisis; Teoría pulsional; Relaciones de objeto; Sexualidad; Psychoanalysis; Drive theory; Object relations; Sexuality

In this essay, we aim to present some of the key transformations that psychoanalysis has undergone in its historical development. In this movement, the concepts of drive and object paradigms were established as main references to the psychoanalytic field. Our primary objective was to explore the presence of object relations in Freud’s drive theory, especially in the first topography. Moreover, we seek to know how the dynamic of drives and the object are present in the thinking of one of the leading psychoanalysts of the first generation, Karl Abraham. As an extension to this study, we point out some of the effects of how the notion of object, included in the theories of these paradigms, can underpin various concepts of development, psychopathology, and clinical practice in contemporary psychoanalysis.