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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2025)
Revista Portuguesa de Psicanálise

SPP 50 ANOS

POTENTIAL VITALITY versus KINETIC VITALITY

https://doi.org/10.51356/rpp.452a4

Published 2025-12-19

  • Ana Luísa Ferreira

Ana Luísa Ferreira
Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise

Abstract

This paper aims to provide a closer understanding and deeper insight into the concept of vitality in psychoanalysis. Based on clinical experience with a child and an adolescent, the author proposes an expansion of the concept to include the definition of vitality in both the register of symbiosis and the register of separation. She pays special attention to vitality in the narcissistic dimension, that is, as a trace of the preservation of primary narcisism.

Keywords

Vitality, Background object of primary identification, Bond, Self-construction, Container centered clinic

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Author Biography

Ana Luísa Ferreira

Psicóloga Clínica, Psicoterapeuta, Psicanalista de Crianças, Adolescentes e Adultos. Membro Associado da Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise (SPP) e da Associação Psicanalítica Internacional (IPA).

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