Desde Freud, o desamparo: os usos do termo e a construção do conceito.

Abstract

This article aims to promote a research about the uses of the term helplessness and the construction of its concept through the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's work. For that, we will identify the presence of the word and its correlated in the Freudian writings, punctuating the times and understanding the joints of the conception and apprehension of helplessness over his theoretical and clinical course. The main interest of this work is to discuss the construction of the concept of helplessness and how it is established in the framework of knowledge of psychoanalysis.