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Luís Carlos Menezes is a Brazilian psychoanalyst who studied in France, where he lived for fourteen years and did most of his training at the APF (Association Psychanalytique de France). He returned to Brazil in 1981 and settled in Sao Paulo, where his participation in the scientific life of the Psychoanalytic Society has been remarkable. What makes Menezes's practice and thinking unique is his strongly French orientation, given that the predominant
currents in his own Society are marked by English influence, especially by the work of Bion. Naturally, the author does not ignore the different currents that permeate contemporary psychoanalysis, and his texts reflect a continuous debate with them. However, having lived in France in the 1970s, where he did his analysis and supervisions, and also began his clinical practice, Menezes ultimately became a sort of unofficial ambassador of the French orientation to the São Paulo milieu, and even promoted the visit of colleagues from that country to teach courses and perform supervisions in São Paulo: Pierre Fédida, in particular, is one of those who visited us several times thanks to the good offices of Menezes.
This book consists of twenty-three papers, reflecting the various clinical and theoretical interests of the author, and certainly is one of the most important publications in the active editorial landscape of psychoanalysis in our country. The book is divided into four parts, each of them containing several papers: ‘Conceptual references on clinical psychoanalysis’, ‘The diversity of thinking in psychoanalysis’, ‘Hatred and destructiveness in narcissism’ and ‘Other texts’ It is not possible to comment one by one on articles that discuss such a variety of themes; however, it should be observed that an identical conviction permeates each, and gives them their characteristic tone: that of the fecundity of Psychoanalysis to think about what is human and to treat some of its most painful wounds. The clinician's sensitivit