O reflexo inapreensível: diálogos transdisciplinares entre mística e clínica psicanalítica

Abstract

This research aims at understanding the dynamic interface between psychoanalytical clinical practice and studies within the field of mysticism, through the perspective that these areas of human knowledge offer a vast potential of mutual contributions and corrections.In such regard, the research intends to approach both the ways in which mystical studies broaden the ethical and ontological conceptions inherent to psychoanalytical clinical practice as well as the way through which its clinical method implies at a new comprehension of mystical phenomena.The question therefore arises: what is a psychoanalysis that considers mysticism as a form of openness to the Real and which, at the same time, can investigate the relational dynamics that the mystic establishes in relation to the processes of self-emptying and positioning facing the spiritual field?Through the idea of potential space of winnicottian theory, the author describes his own reflections derived from his personal investigations, starting with an interpretation of the autobiography of an eighteenth-century Japanese Zen Buddhist monk called Hakuin.Hakuin's life presents themes of interface between mysticism and the clinical situation that, after being discussed, open space for the clinical analysis of different situations which the author of this thesis has experienced during a period of immersion in groups of spirituality, including experiences in India and Nepal, which makes it possible to reflect upon how mysticism may occur in postmodernity.From this, it follows a reflection on the possibility of the psychoanalyst to investigate, in the clinical relation, the subjective ways with which the mystic puts himself in dialogue with the field of the transcendent and the absolute; a possibility that touches the issues of spiritual sickness, a series of phenomena established in the religious field that escape from the purely psychological matrices, while at the same time it imports into the spiritual field idiosyncratic forms of illness.Then, an approximation is made between mysticism and psychoanalytic practice, justifying its choice as an essential model for the proposed dialogue.Finally, from the apophatic method of mysticism, some of the possibilities by which the clinic can be understood by a mystical bias are described, as well as the ones through which mysticism can be understood by a clinical bias, leading to the conclusion regarding the fecundity of this dialogue.