A importância de ser Ernest Jones: uma leitura psicanalítica sobre a invisibilidade de um homem notável

Abstract

Ernest Jones (1879-1958), Welsh psychoanalyst and Freud‘s disciple, has produced a significant number of papers and books on Psychoanalysis throughout his life, and yet, at least in Brazil, his life and work are quite unknown. The aim of the thesis is to investigate the issue of invisibility - and the related theme importance / importance - of this author, based on the psychoanalytic reading of his biography and the selection of specific texts of his extensive work. A study on Jones is fully justified, therefore, in view of the novelty of his work and legacy and the importance of this character in the History of Psychoanalysis. The discussion of the research is given by the analysis of texts and documents that keep between themselves but an organized theoretical continuity, at least a coherent line, a repetition or similitude of contents or key ideas that help us to understand it. With the help and inspiration of authors such as Brenda Maddox, Veszy-Wagner, and Adam Phillips - who have studied the life and / or work of the Welsh psychoanalyst - we will examine some of the themes to which Jones has devoted himself in his many (and extremely eclectic) studies: the question of religion, of genius, of the Oedipal battle between father and son. The discussion of the author‘s selected texts and its interface with biographical data - besides historical contextualization - reveal a character that maintains coherence between his personal history (biography), his production on psychoanalysis and his role as ambassador of the international psychoanalytic movement. Studying this correlation was the course of the thesis, which had the financial support of CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - Brazil)