Contributions to a Psychoanalytic Theory of Perception: The Hallucinatory Regression to the Thing of Desire/Contribuicoes para uma Teoria Psicanalitica da Percepcao: Da Regressao Alucinatoria a Coisa do Desejo

This article seeks to examine the relationships between perception, psychic reality, and desire from the perspective of Freudian psychoanalysis. In the first part of the study, the "scheme" of the psychic apparatus proposed by Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), presenting the mechanism of hallucinatory regression, was demonstrated as revealing the temporal structure of desire, within which the problem of perception receives an actual psychoanalytic sense. In the second part, the emergence of the notion of das Ding (the Thing), already present in Project for a scientific psychology (1895), is observed, indicating that the field of perceptual phenomena is articulated in terms of the relationship of the subject to the "fellow human being" (Nebensmensch), and, thus, to the Thing of desire, in addressing the constituent helplessness of psychic life. KEYWORDS: perception, desire, psychic reality, Freud, Lacan Este artigo busca examinar as relacoes entre percepcao, realidade psiquica e desejo sob a perspectiva da psicanalise freudiana. Na primeira parte do trabalho, tratou-se de mostrar que o "esquema" do aparelho psiquico proposto por Freud na Interpretacao dos sonhos (1900), evidenciando o mecanismo da regressao alucinatoria, descortina a estrutura temporal do desejo, no interior da qual o problema da percepcao recebe um sentido propriamente psicanalitico. Na segunda parte, vimos que o aparecimento da nocao de das Ding (a Coisa), ja no Projeto de uma psicologia (1895), demonstra que o campo dos fenomenos perceptivos se articula em funcao da relacao do sujeito ao "proximo" (Nebensmensch), e, consequentemente, a Coisa do desejo, no enfrentamento do desamparo constitutivo da vida psiquica. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: percepcao, desejo, realidade psiquica, Freud, Lacan