Articulations between fundamental principles of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical clinics and research at a university

This article intends to establish the theoretical and clinical coordinates of the research group in psychoanalysis at a Federal University. Therefore, we present the concepts which are considered crucial for the structuring of the psychoanalytic theory and clinics – namely, the way they can be the source to research in various important themes to psychoanalytic research, and its importance in establishing the scientific field of psychoanalysis as well as its interaction with other fields of knowledge. The article concludes with the demonstration of the detours that psychoanalysis may face if it does not follow strict concepts which structure its experience. Keywords: psychoanalysis; clinics; research.