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The publishing house Karnac (today Routledge) was seeking Brazilian authors in order to begin its activities in Portuguese when they carried out a survey among psychoanalysts which revealed that Roosevelt Cassorla was one of their most respected authors. The publishing house contacted Cassorla and suggested this book, initially in Portuguese (2016) and now translated into English with slight modifications. In The Psychoanalyst, the Theatre of Dreams and the Clinic of Enactment, Cassorla presents his most recent investigations, some already published in international journals, discussing complex situations observed during clinical practice, at the same time formulating original concepts that are being increasingly adopted in psychoanalytic literature. The author is a Titular Member and Training Analyst for the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo and the Campinas Study Group, and Full Professor of Medical Psychology at the State University of Campinas. While the book was being edited, Cassorla was awarded the Sigourney Award 2017.
Cassorla is a committed author possessing the investigative nature of the psychoanalytic method. In the first chapters – “The Analytic Field and Dreams-for-Two” and “Dreaming Non-dreamed Dreams” – he discusses the vicissitudes of transformations that involve dual and triangular correspondence in their relationship with the processes of symbolisation, developing his conceptions about dreams-for-two, non-dreams and non-dreams-for-two.
The chapter “The Theatre of Dreams” presents his reflections on the analytic field through representative models such as cinema, literature and theatre, with the latter chosen to be dissected for the study of areas with a symbolisation deficit, exactly for involving “live” scenes that allow significations in the here-and-now of the encounter between the analyst and the analysand.
The model taken from theatre and its connection with psychoanalytic literature converge for a thematic of enactment, a term that