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y name is João José R. L. Almeida. I'm graduated from the Superior Institute of Theological Education (ISEDET), in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After leaving college, I came back to my home country, Brazil, and took a Master's

Degree course in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), finishing in 1997 with a dissertation in Philosophy of Language whose title was Fallibilism and Ultimate Foundation, about a controversy among Karl-Otto Apel and some Popperian philosophers. You can find an on-line short account just clicking on the link-title.   At 07/08/2004 I defended a doctoral thesis in the area of philosophy of psychoanalysis, whose title was The Compulsion to Language in Psychoanalysis: Lacanian Theory and Pragmatic Psychoanalysis.   This work is a critical exposition of conceptual links manifested in the two above mentioned psychoanalitic theories. It was intended to get a panoramic presentation from the conceptual composition and the meaning that the words acquire in the whole of each theoretical practice, without overlooking the exegetical investigation. The two types of psychoanalytical theories - there denominated as "linguistic psychoanalysis" - appealed to certain conceptions of language as form of resolution of metaphysical and clinical problems inherited from the Freudian theory.   Just four phases of the Lacanian psychoanalysis are examined in the thesis: (1) the initial period (1932-1953); (2) the incorporation of the Structuralism (1953-1956); (3) the primacy of the signifier phase (1956-1958); and (4) the "lalangue" phase (1972-1973). About the Pragmatic Psychoanalysis, it got circumscribed to the works of both Marcia Cavell (The Psychoanalytic Mind) and Jurandir Freire Costa (Redescriptions of Psychoanalysis, Shadows and Blowings, among others).   Their theoretical behaviour was considered as compulsive, inasmuch as they blindly obey the incorporation of technics and procedures in order to clean the old theory from conceptual impurities. They are "grammars, moving by the force of habits and by their world view. Whereas Freud presupposed a referential conception of language, Lacan adopted an idealist conception, and the pragmatic psychoanalysis resorted to a behavioral point of view, to accomplish their respective tasks.   The work consists in questioning both the Lacanian substantialization of language and the mentalism and mecanicism presented in the pragmatic view. Nothing seems to indicate that clinics would need such resorts, nor that those theories would not introduced new metaphysical problems.   Check the summary and presentation by clicking on ----> HERE <----. But the text is in Portuguese. The whole file must be requested through the link "MESSAGES" below.   If you want to send me a message, just click here: MESSAGES   Find here my résumé CURRICULUM VITAE