Um psicanalista para os seus tempos: Karl Weissmann e a difusão da Psicanálise no Brasil

Abstract

This work constitutes itself as a biography of Karl Weissmann , an Austrian psychoanalyst who had spent a long time of his life on Brazilian soil.With this thesis, we seek to contribute to researches on the History of Psychoanalysis in Brazil, through the investigation of a subject that has been little studied until now.To do so, we make use of the theoretical contributions by François Dosse, regarding the issue of biographies, and by Carlo Ginzburg, regarding Microhistory as a horizon for biographical research.Having these authors as basic references, we seek to present and discuss the life and work of Karl Weissmann, inscribing him in his time, mapping the conditions of his professional paths, as well as his own conception of Psychoanalysis.We also aim to place him in a specific tradition of psychoanalysts in Brazil, dedicated to the dissemination of psychoanalysis to the lay public.We emphasize that, among the various references found throughout the work, three of them, intertwined, gained importance in the effort to understand his trajectory: the place of a foreigner, who arrived in Brazil at a young age and spent his life teaching languages or talking about intellectuals of his homeland; the place of intellectual, who was quickly recognized as an important language teacher and a reference for understanding German authors, such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud; the position of psychoanalyst, who made this doctrine, and this profession his main orientation and basic reference of his thought.Thus, this thesis aims to: endorse the debate on the use of biographies within the field of History of Psychoanalysis, highlighting the importance of placing the investigated subject in relation to his time; present elements of Karl Weissmann's life and work, with his bets, contradictions and professional strategies; to give substance to a broader debate in the History of Psychoanalysis in Brazil, namely, a specific tradition of psychoanalysts who are more interested in disseminating elements of this doctrine to the lay public than in any path of institutional formation.

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