{"id":130,"date":"2016-03-27T02:58:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T05:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:09:12","slug":"psicanalise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/en\/psicanalise\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychoanalysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-10\">\n<h1><strong><span class=\"slabtext\"><em>what if the unconscious<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong><span class=\"slabtext\"><em>were an exclamation point<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong><span class=\"slabtext\"><em>and consciousness<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong><span class=\"slabtext\"><em>a question mark?<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1802\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_mathias.jpg\" alt=\"Mathias Mangin\" width=\"350\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_mathias.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_mathias-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_mathias-125x90.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Mathias Mangin<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy history with psychoanalysis,\u201d says Betty Milan, \u201cdates from anguish that could have led me to suicide. I overcame that anguish thanks to analytical work. I was 18, and the name of the psychoanalyst is Isa\u00edas Melsohn, a teacher at the Brazilian Psychoanalysis Society. With him, I traveled a good part of the road while in medical school.<br \/>\n\u201cLater, I encountered Jacques Lacan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/carta-a-autora-lacan\/\"><strong>letter<\/strong><\/a>) and underwent five years of analysis (1973-1978). Meanwhile, the analyst Magno Machado Dias and I founded the Freudian Schoolof Rio de Janeiro, which played a major role in increasing awareness of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Brazil. In 1985 we brought together more than a thousand persons in a conference sponsored by Gilberto Freyre. My work in the psychoanalytical field was mainly clinical, and the term that best suits me is \u2018practicing analyst.\u2019 I taught little but wrote some articles on psychoanalytical theory that were published in magazines and newspapers and are available below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I know comes from my clinical observations and my books, which in different ways invigorate psychoanalysis. It also comes from my son, who in the collage that opens this page, represented the unconscious by an exclamation point and the conscious mind by a question mark, leading me to rethink these concepts from the standpoint of punctuation. He\u2019s even more Lacanian than I am!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"linha-grossa\" \/>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><span class=\"cor-1 slabtext\"><strong><em>essays and articles PSI<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Betty Milan the psychoanalyst appears in technical works in the form of essays, lectures, interviews, and newspaper articles. Some of them were published in book form while others were published in periodicals or remain unpublished.<br \/>\nWorking on the formulation of text in her <span class=\"link-destaque\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/en\/livros\/#selected-works\">Selected Works<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, the author gathered all the material in the trilogy entitled <strong><em>Psi<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 still unpublished in print form but accessible on this site.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation of the titles <strong><em>O jogo do esconderijo<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Manhas do poder<\/em><\/strong>, previously published volumes on this theme, can be found under the menu item BOOKS. The third part of the set consists of the selection of articles entitled <strong>O saber do inconsciente<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link-destaque\"><strong><a class=\"destaque\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/pb\/psicanalise\">(see Portuguese version)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what if the unconscious were an exclamation point and consciousness a question mark? &nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cMy history with psychoanalysis,\u201d says Betty Milan, \u201cdates from anguish that could have led me to suicide. I overcame that anguish thanks to analytical work. I was 18, and the name of the psychoanalyst is Isa\u00edas Melsohn, a teacher at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"psicanalise.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Psychoanalysis | Betty Milan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"e se o inconsciente fosse um ponto de exclama\u00e7\u00e3o e a consci\u00eancia um ponto de interroga\u00e7\u00e3o? &nbsp; &nbsp; Minha hist\u00f3ria com a psican\u00e1lise data de uma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/psicanalise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Psychoanalysis | Betty Milan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"e se o inconsciente fosse um ponto de exclama\u00e7\u00e3o e a consci\u00eancia um ponto de interroga\u00e7\u00e3o? &nbsp; &nbsp; Minha hist\u00f3ria com a psican\u00e1lise data de uma\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/psicanalise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Betty Milan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BettyMilanEscritora\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-23T14:09:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/img_mathias.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"253\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bettymilan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/psicanalise\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/psicanalise\\\/\",\"name\":\"Psychoanalysis | Betty Milan\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/psicanalise\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/psicanalise\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/img_mathias.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-27T05:58:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-23T14:09:12+00:00\",\"description\":\"e se o inconsciente fosse um ponto de exclama\u00e7\u00e3o e a consci\u00eancia um ponto de interroga\u00e7\u00e3o? &nbsp; &nbsp; Minha hist\u00f3ria com a psican\u00e1lise data de uma\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/psicanalise\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/psicanalise\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/psicanalise\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/img_mathias.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/img_mathias.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/psicanalise\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"In\u00edcio\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Psican\u00e1lise\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bettymilan.com.br\\\/\",\"name\":\"Betty Milan\",\"description\":\"Betty Milan writer and psychoanalyst website. 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