O conceito freudiano de regressão de 1900 a 1917

Abstract

The concept of regression is present in Freud's theoretical formulations from texts considered pre-psychoanalytic to his writings. It is defined in Freud's work in different ways and in different contexts, without a systematization of its different definitions. The objective of this work is to provide conceptual foundations for a more cohesive and critical view of the concept of regression as it is thought in the theory of neurosis, through the analysis of its development in texts published between 1900 and 1917, the main period in the development of this concept in Freudian theory. To achieve this goal, an internal, textual and conceptual analysis of the Freudian work was carried out. We seek to show that, despite the complexity and diversity of uses of the term, the different types of regression improved by Freud can be understood as different aspects of the same process.