O brincar e a psicanálise em Freud, Klein e Winnicott: um método de investigação do inconsciente

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss and propose a reflection on play and psychoanalysis, which is a method for investigating the unconscious. Playing is seen, by a large group of thinkers, as an essential activity for child development. In this sense, it sought to answer the question: in what way is the technique of playing understood in the psychoanalytic clinic? Therefore, the aim of this paper is to investigate how the technique of playing is understood in the psychoanalytic clinic. To do so, we will first analyze what play is to psychoanalysis; we will present how unconscious contents appear in children's play; and then we will understand how psychoanalysis uses play in clinical practice with children. To support the research, Gil (2003) presents some conditions for analytical reading, which should be guided through four intersecting stages: initially the text is read in its entirety; then key ideas are highlighted; then a process of hierarchizing these ideas is carried out; only at the end to synthesize what is being presented by the authors.