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      Elements of Winnicott's Theory of Sexuality Translated title: Elementos da teoria winnicottiana da sexualidade

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          After summarizing the differences between the Freudian and Winnicottian paradigms of psychoanalysis (section 1), the paper lays out the central ideas of Winnicott's theory of sexuality. The main theses defended are the following: (1) Winnicott redescribed sexuality as having two basic roots: the instinctive root (instincts understood as biological drives) and the identity root (the human interrelations that happen parallel to instinctive drives, as identifications of various sorts), (2) he rewrote the essential portions of traditional psychoanalytic theory dealing with this phenomena, and (3) in doing so, added essential elements to his new paradigm of psychoanalysis (section 2). Following a schematic presentation of Winnicott's conception of the instinctive and identity roots of sexuality (sections 6-9), as well as of some of its implications (section 10), I point out the corresponding sexual conflicts and the resulting disorders (in particular, I show that the instinctive root can bring about neuroses, whereas the identity root may produce dissociations with psychotic complications). The final sections (11-12) analyze an additional thesis by Winnicott, according to which both roots of human sexuality are entrenched in the common ground of the process of maturation, and that all conflicts of the sexual type are related to the deeper conflict between being and doing, conceived as a universal human problem inherent to that process.

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          Após resumir as diferenças entre os paradigmas freudiano e winnicottiano da psicanálise (seção 1), o presente trabalho passa a apresentar as ideias centrais da teoria winnicottiana da sexualidade. As principais teses defendidas são as seguintes: 1) Winnicott redescreveu a sexualidade a partir de duas raízes: a raiz instintual (os instintos entendidos como impulsos biológicos) e a raiz identitária (as inter-relações humanas acontecendo à parte dos impulsos instintuais, como identificações de diferentes tipos), 2) ele reescreveu o essencial da teoria psicanalítica tradicional desse fenômeno, e 3) ao fazer tudo isso, ele acrescentou elementos essenciais ao seu novo paradigma da psicanálise (seção 2). Depois de apresentar de maneira esquemática a concepção winnicottiana da raiz instintual e da raiz identitária da sexualidade, bem como algumas das suas implicações (seção 10), (seções 6-9), especificarei os conflitos sexuais correspondentes, bem como os distúrbios que deles resultam (mostrarei, em particular, que a raiz instintual pode dar origem a neuroses e a identitária, a dissociações com complicações psicóticas). Na ultima parte do artigo (seções 11-12), analisarei uma tese adicional de Winnicott, a de que ambas as raÃzes da sexualidade humana são fincadas no chão comum do processo de amadurecimento e que todos os conflitos do tipo sexual são relacionados ao conflito mais profundo entre o ser e o fazer, concebido como problema universal dos seres humanos inerente nesse processo.

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                Journal
                wep
                Winnicott e-prints
                Winnicott e-prints
                Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise Winnicottiana (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                1679-432X
                2010
                : 5
                : 1
                : 1-36
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnamePontifÃcia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
                [03] orgnameUniversidade de campinas
                [02] orgnamePontifÃcia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
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                S1679-432X2010000100001 S1679-432X(10)00500101
                ef0a70e6-c43a-4556-affe-be48fc3d059b

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                instinct,maturating,sexuality,fazer,ser,identificação,instinto,amadurecimento,sexualidade,doing,being,identification

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