O presente artigo apresenta três teses principais. A primeira diz que, nos Seminários de Zollikon, Heidegger desenvolveu projeto de uma antropologia, patologia e terapia daseinsanalíticas no qual ele rejeita a metapsicologia de Freud, mas preserva suas descobertas fatuais e procedimentos de cura. A secunda tese sustenta que Winnicott introduziu um novo paradigma na psicanálise que igualmente rejeita a metapsicologia freudiana e centra a pesquisa e a cura psicanalíticas sobre problemas de amadurecimento pessoal e não mais sobre o complexo de Édipo. (...) A terceira tese combina as duas primeira para dizer a) que a psicanálise winnicottiana satisfaz os requisitos de Heidegger para a patologia e a terapia daseinsanalíticas, b) que, além disso, essa nova psicanálise pode estimular de maneira decisiva a pesquisa futura no campo da antropologia daseinsanalítica.The paper proposes three main theses. The first thesis says that in Zollikoner Seminare Heidegger has developed a project of a daseinsanalytic anthropology and pathology in which he rejects Freud's metapsychology, but accepts his factual findings and therapeutic procedures. The second thesis affirms that Winnicott has introduced a new paradigm in psychoanalysis which also rejects Freud's metapsychology and centers the psychoanalytic research and therapy on the problem of maturation and no more on the Oedipus Complex. The third thesis combines the first two in saying a) that Winnicott's psychoanalysis satisfies Heidegger's requirements for a daseinsanalytic pathology and therapy and b) that, moreover, it can stimulate, in a decisive manner, the future research in the field of daseinsanalytic anthropology. (shrink)

Sobre esta edição A terceira edição de A Semântica transcendental de Kant (Campinas, CLE, 2005) encontra-se esgotada há vários anos. Este fato recomenda a sua reedição, tendo em vista o interesse que as edições anteriores suscitaram na comunidade kantiana brasileira. Desde a primeira edição em 2000, dediquei numerosos artigos e resenhas – publicados nas revistas Analytica, Cadernos de História e Filosofia da Ciência, Manuscrito, O que nos faz pensar e Studia Kantiana, entre outras – foram dedicados à apresentação e divulgação (...) de pesquisas, bem como aos debates, sobre o lugar da semântica transcendental na obra de Kant. Sobre a coleção Zeljko Loparic: Obras Reunidas A idade pede que se olhe para o passado, o caminho percorrido e as realizações. Minhas Obras reunidas são uma tentativa de fazer tal balanço. Elas conterão a totalidade de minha produção intelectual no campo da filosofia publicada entre 1975 e 2022. Os trabalhos serão agrupados em seis partes temáticas e ordenados cronologicamente, seguindo as principais linhas de desenvolvimento da minha compreensão das perguntas filosóficas ao longo dos anos. Uma sétima parte conterá traduções de minha produção para outras línguas. Os volumes de cada parte terão títulos refletindo sua fonte de inspiração ou seu conteúdo, o que será esboçado em prefácios. Os escritos desse período ainda inéditos serão a disponibilizados online via streaming na Coleção Inéditos Loparic. (shrink)

The article considers the Greek ideal of moderation, most often expressed through the notion of the Mean. It is not merely a pangreek ideal, but an ancient and everlasting inheritance, which converged to the education in the unity of ‘goodness and beauty’. It is lived in the polis, as it was also a personal aspiration of the inner soul. In Aristotle’s politics, the source of moderation is primarily connected to the balance of political orders, however there is another perspective in (...) which it is more about the virtue and moral qualities of aristocracy, which identifies the good man and citizen. That approach is more akin to research conducted in Aristotle’s texts on ethics. Careful analysis of these distinctions from the book Politics is concluded with insights on education and virtue as complementary aspects of practical philosophy. (shrink)

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Husserls Lehre von der kategorialen An­schauung als einem der wichtigsten Momente seines Versuchs der Grund­legung der Phänomenologie als eidetischer Wissenschaft. Ausgehend von Husserls phänomenologischen Kritik an Versuchen einer Naturalisierung des Bewusstseins, werden insbesondere die Probleme der Bedeutungs­intention und -erfüllung, des Unterschieds zwischen sinnlicher und kate­gorialer Anschauung, der kategorialen Formung und der sog. Wesens­anschauung erörtert. In diesem Zusammenhang geht es auch um die Abgrenzung des Husserlschen transzendentalphilosophischen Ansatzes von der transzendentalphilosophischen Axiomatik Immanuel Kants.

The main aim of shamanic initiation among the Yanomami people of the Upper Orinoco River region in Venezuela is the metamorphosis of the human body into a cosmic body, or what I term "corporeal cosmogenesis." During the initiatory ordeal, the neophyte undergoes an intense experience of death through dismemberment by the spirits and subsequent rebirth, thus overcoming the human condition and becoming an individual living spirit. But, at the same time, he becomes a "collection" of other spirits who leave their (...) natural habitats—located on the mountaintops and in the forest—and move into the initiate's body, which becomes their abode. As the candidate surrenders his soul and humanness to the spirits, the latter become his personal allies and sources of power while imbuing the shaman's postmortem ego with certain properties that can best be described in holographic terms. After the shaman's biological death, his personal spirits become disembodied again and disperse back into the forest and on the mountaintops. When the shaman dies, his soul multiplies, as each of the disembodied spirits becomes a carrier of the shaman's soul image. In this way, through initiations, the shaman becomes a part of a dynamic cosmic circuity, as his hekura can be called upon to invade the bodies of new shamans, and start a cosmogonic initiatory act anew. (shrink)

De início, o presente artigo apresenta, de maneira esquemática, a concepção freudiana dos distúrbios que fazem parte do domínio de aplicação da psicanálise. Em seguida, dedica-se, de modo mais detalhado, ao estudo da teoria winnicottiana da etiologia, natureza, classificação, solubilidades e de procedimentos de resolução desse mesmo tipo de problemas clínicos. Um dos resultados obtidos é um conjunto de evidências adicionais a favor da tese de que Winnicott operou uma mudança paradigmática na psicanálise.This paper begins with an outline of the (...) Freudian view of the disorders that are dealt with in psychoanalysis. It then describes in a more detailed manner the Winnicottian theory of the etiology, nature, classification, solutions, and procedures for resolving those same kinds of clinical problems. One of the results obtained is a set of additional evidence for the thesis that Winnicott performed a paradigm shift in psychoanalysis. (shrink)

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Kritik an der Philosophie von Ludwig Klages, die in den 1920-ern Jahren seine Zeitgenossen wie Helmuth Plessner, Georg Misch und etwas später in den 1930-ern Jahren auch Max Bense übten. Der Gegenstand der Kritik war vor allem seine These von der grundlegenden Opposition von Geist und Seele aber auch seine graphologischen Schriften. Im Zentrum der hier vorgelegten Analyse steht die Herausarbeitung der Inkongruenz dieser kritischen Stimmen, die sich darauf bezieht, dass Klages sowohl den naturalistischen (...) als auch irrationalistischen Vorwürfen ausgesetz ist. (shrink)

O presente artigo propõe-se a estudar a desconstrução heideggeriana da teoria clínica e da metapsicologia de Freud à luz do método fenomenológico construtivo-desconstrutivo. Depois de caracterizar a teorização psicanalítica como devedora da metafísica da subjetividade objetificada, o artigo mostra em que sentido se pode dizer que essa metafísica oculta o modo de ser originário dos seres humanos para, em seguida, examinar a crítica heideggeriana dos elementos dessa metafísica, embutidos tanto na teoria clínica como na metapsicologia de Freud.The aim of this (...) article is to study Heidegger's deconstruction of the Freudian metapsychology as well as of his clinical theory by means of the phenomenological method. After characterising the psychoanalytic way of theorising as determined by metaphysics of objectified subjectivity, it proceeds to show in what sense it can be said that this metaphysics conceals the original mode of being of man, in order to examine next Heidegger's criticism of elements of this metaphysics which became part and parcel of the Freudian clinical theory and metapsychology. (shrink)

Many species maintain cytosine DNA methyltransferase (MTase) genes belonging to the Dnmt2 family. Prokaryotic modification‐restriction systems utilize DNA methylation to distinguish between self and foreign DNA, and cytosine methylation in eukaryotic DNA contributes to epigenetic mechanisms that control gene expression. However, Dnmt2 proteins display only low or no DNA MTase activity, making this protein family the odd and enigmatic family member. Recent evidence showed that Dnmt2 proteins are not DNA but RNA MTases with functions in biological processes as diverse as (...) stress responses and RNA‐mediated inheritance. These observations not only raise profound questions regarding the perceived substrate specificities of cytosine MTase, but also suggest links between DNA and RNA modification systems. Here, we speculate that Dnmt2 proteins might be part of an ancient cytosine modification toolbox that is used to successfully respond to environmental challenges, including constantly evolving RNA and DNA substrates. (shrink)

Significant breakthroughs in genetic research promoted by the human genome project, advances in molecular biology and new reproductive technologies have improved the understanding and the possibility of genetic interventions as a potential medication for diseases caused by differentiated disorders, especially those that originated in irregularities in individual genes. The progress achieved in contemporary studies has created the likelihood that the man has the technical capacity to modify the genes that will be transmitted to the next generations as well. These are (...) the so-called hereditary genetic modifications, i.e. any biomedical interventions which could be expected to transform the genome which a person could transfer to their offspring. The author analyses in this paper why even the hints of transformations of genes that will be passed on to future generations cause deep bioethical, theological, legal and political debates and controversies. He also believes that in the era of rapid strengthening of the social and technical and technological effects of science, it is very important that scientists, in their perceptions and insights, which particularly in the field of humanities, do not have the character of value beliefs, do not go below the achieved civilization standards of ethical and moral culture and to reflect on different themes with due care and awareness of the dilemmas that they can encounter in their professional work. An adequate interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and pluriperspective approach, as well as the awareness of the essential compatibility of scientific freedom and responsibility, should ultimately result in a different and more sophisticated attitude of the scientists themselves to the possibilities of their own discipline and the significance of its effects. (shrink)

Depois de fazer uma breve análise das idéias centrais introduzidas por Ludwig Binswanger no seu artigo seminal "O sonho e a existência", de 1930, o presente trabalho examina o lugar ocupado por essas idéias na daseinsanálise psiquiátrica do mesmo autor. Em seguida, são estudadas as objeções que Martin Heidegger dirigiu ao uso da analítica existencial de Ser e tempo na formulação da daseinsanálise psiquiátrica. Na última seção, discutem-se as perspectivas atuais de um diálogo entre o pensamento de Heidegger e as (...) ciências humanas, em particular, a psicanálise winnicottiana.After presenting a brief analysis of the central ideas of Ludwig Binswanger contained in his seminal article "Dreaming and Existence", published in 1930, this paper examines the place of these ideas in Binswanger's theory of psychiatric daseinsanalysis. The next section is dedicated to the study of objections that Martin Heidegger raised against the use of existential analytics of Being and Time in framing psychiatric daseinsanalysis. The final section offers a brief discussion of perspectives for a renewed dialogue between Heidegger and human sciences, Winnicott's psychoanalysis in particular. (shrink)

Com base em discussões antigas e recentes sobre o status epistemológico das teorias científicas, o presente artigo analisa o prefácio de Osiander ao De revolutionibus de Copérnico.

SÍNTESE - O texto não fala de um confronto entre Heidegger e Freud. A crítica da psicanálise propõe uma nova leitura na forma de uma desconstrução conceitual. O autor faz uma análise da origem metafisica dos conceitos de psicanálise e de seu instrumental mitológico, sugerindo um universo conceituai que nasce da superação da metafisica. Trata-se de "substituir modo de teorizar da psicanálise por um modo de pensar e de conhecer radicalmente diferente.".

In seinem Beitrag analysiert der Verfasser den Artikel „Kants Verfehlung des Zieles“ Rudolf Brajičićs SJ, wo man Kant vorgeworfen wird, dass er durch die Postulierung des „Unerkennbarkeit von Ding an sich“ Tür und Tor dem neuzeitlichen und besonders aufklärerischen Agnostizismus und seinem grenzlosen Vertrauen auf die Vernunft geöffnet hat. Durch die Analyse der Kant’schen Schrift Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können“ (1783) und sich auf einen Kant-Aufsatz Alois Halders berufend versucht der Verfasser zu zeigen, (...) dass der Glaube in seinem Gott-Verhältnis autonom und frei ist – im Unterschied zur Vernunft, die sich selbst als „Objekt“ seiner Überlegungen stellend zur diejenigen Art des „transzendentalen Solipsismus“ gelangt, die in unlösbaren Antinomien führt. Da Kant zufolge das Sein „kein reales Prädikat“ ist, kann man ihn als den Vorläufer der späteren existenzphilosophischen Kritik traditioneller Ontotheologie, von dem übrigens dieser Begriff überhaupt stammt. (shrink)

Heideggersche erste Bewegungen in Richtung auf die Funda?mentalontologie lassen sich in seinen Vorlesungen der fr?hen 20er Jahren beobachten. Heidegger versucht darin, sich von dem Logizismus der Husserlschen Bewusstseinsphilosophie zu emanzipieren, indem er ein Konzept der Urwissenschaft entwirft. Die Urwis?senschaft soll bei der vortheoretischen Erfahrung, d. h. bei den vorreflexiven Erlebnissen ansetzen. Sie hat der entlebenden Tendenz der theoretischen Einstellung zum Erlebnis?strom entgegenzuwirken und somit die Voraussetzungen daf?r zu schaffen, eine Viel?falt der lebendigen Erfahrungsweisen zum ausdr?cklichen Verstehen zu bringen. Somit kn?pft (...) die Urwissenschaft an das Programm der Ph?nomenologie von Edmund Husserl, modifiziert es aber entscheidend, indem es aus der Sph?re des Bewusstseins in jene des lebendigen Erlebnisstroms verlegt. Hajdegerovi prvi pomaci u pravcu fundamentalne ontologije mogu se posmatrati u njegovim predavanjima iz dvadesetih godina proslog veka. U njima Hajdeger pokusava da se emancipuje od logicizma Huserlove filozofije svesti tako sto razvija projekat pranauke. Ona treba da krene od predteoretskog iskustva, tj. predrefleksivnih dozivljaja. Pranauka treba da deluje nasuprot obezivotljavajucoj tendenciji teoretskog stava spram toka dozivljaja te tako stvori pretpostavke za izricito razumevanje visestrukosti zivotnih nacina iskustva. Pranauka se time nadovezuje na program fenomenologije Edmunda Huserla, ali ga modifikuje na odlucujuci nacin tako sto ga premesta iz sfere svesti u sferu zivotnog toka dozivljaja. (shrink)

The article primarily addresses different philosophical views of otherness and tries to question them from a hermeneutic perspective. Above all, the conceptual radicalism of the asymmetrical relationships is criticized through the hermeneutic approach, understood not as mere strategy of appropriating the other or the stranger, but as an open process of understanding, in which the heterogeneity of those involved is subject to constant change, but is nevertheless always maintained. On this basis, the cultural-philosophical, but also social and political relevance of (...) the opposition between cultural pessimism and cultural optimism is called into question. (shrink)

U Freudu svojstvenom etičkom relativiziranju, moral i smisao bivstvovanja u konačnici su određeni ekonomijom libida. Takvi su stavovi omogućeni reduciranjem djelovanja na prirodnouzročni determinizam, posredovanjem konstrukcije teorijskog modela psihičkog funkcioniranja, pri čemu se zanemaruje mogućnost neempijskog kauzaliteta iz slobode. Freudova biologijska orijentacija rezultirala je gledištem o psihičkim motivacijama kao rezultatom kemijsko-fizioloških procesa, koji su k tome prvenstveno određeni hereditarnim ili konstitucionalnim čimbenicima. No, upravo kod njega psihoanaliza je imala najsnažniji kulturni i antropologijski impetus.In ethical relativism characteristical for Freud, moral and (...) the meaning of being are in the end determined by the economy of libido. Such attitudes are enabled by action being reduced to naturally caused determinism, where construction of the theoretical model of psychological functioning acts as an intermediary, and the possibility of non-empirical causality from freedom is disregarded. Freud’s orientation towards biology has resulted in his stand on psychological motivations as a result of chemical-physiological processes, which are, in addition, primarily determined by hereditary or constitutional factors. Nevertheless, it is with Freud that the psychoanalysis has had the strongest cultural and anthropological impetus. (shrink)

Após fazer uma breve apresentação da maneira como o tema da origem surge no pensamento de Heidegger, o artigo mostra que esse tema se desdobra necessariamente no do nascimento. Em seguida, o nascimento é estudado tal como tematizado por Heidegger na primeira e na segunda fase da sua filosofia. Por fim, o artigo explica os conceitos de nascimento e origem que compõem a teoria do amadurecimento de Winnicott, a fim de iniciar um diálogo entre o pensamento heideggeriano do ser e (...) a psicanálise winnicottiana do acontecer maturacional.After making a brief presentation of the manner in which the topic of origin emerges in Heidegger’s thought, the article shows that this topic necessarily includes that of birth. Next, the birth is studied in the light of the first and the second phase of Heidegger’s philosophy. Finally, the concepts of birth and origin that are contained in Winnicott’s theory of maturation are presented in order to introduce a dialogue between Heidegger’s thinking of Being and Winnicott’s psychoanalysis of human coming to be and growth. (shrink)

O presente comentário analisa um breve texto tardio de Kant sobre afisiologia especulativa. Além de ilustrar muito bem os princípios metodológicos doprograma de pesquisa kantiano para as ciências da natureza – segundo o qual as ficçõesespeculativas, de valor apenas heurístico, podem ser utilizadas para observar eorganizar fenômenos na procura de suas leis empíricas –, esse escrito antecipa,metodológica e epistemologicamente, os trabalhos de Freud sobre a metapsicogiafisiológica.t:This commentary analyzes a short text by late Kant on speculativephysiology. It ilustrates main metodological principles (...) of Kant’s research programmefor natural sciences – according to which speculative fictions with exclusively heuristicvalue are allowed to be used in observing and organizing phenomena in search forempirical laws – and in addition it anticipates, both methodologically andespistemologically, Freud’s writings on physilogical metapsychology. (shrink)

O presente estudo propõe-se reconstruir o conceito winnicottiano da unidade psicossomática do ser humano. Depois de expor o caráter acontecencial e a estrutura interna do psique-soma, oferece uma análise detalhada das operações da "elaboração imaginativa", começando pela tentativa de definir a natureza dessas operações. Prossegue com o exame das operações mais primitivas que garantem a inter-relação inicial básica da psique e do soma, chama a atenção para a constituição do si-mesmo imaginativo, e termina identificando e explicando algumas operações elaborativas mais (...) avançadas, assumidas pelos indivíduos humanos sadios "em primeira pessoa".The present study aims at reconstructing Winnicott's concept of psycho-somatic unity of the human being. After explaining the historical character and inner structure of the psyque-soma, it starts a detailed analysis of "imaginative elaboration" with an attempt to define the very nature of these operations. It examines next the most primitive of them that which elaborate the body functions thus garantee the initial psyche-soma relation, goes over to the problem of constitution of the imaginative self and ends by identifying and explaing some more advanced operations, assumed by grown up healthy indivuals "in the first person". (shrink)

Depois de formular, de modo esquemático, o problema fundamental de religião em Kant – o de decidir se o homem é moralmente bom ou mau –, o artigo trata do conceito kantiano de religião da razão, enfatizando que Kant propõe uma doutrina da religião sem Deus, embora não sem a idéia de Deus. Na seqüência, desenvolve a concepção kantiana da natureza humana, mostrando que essa concepção delimita o domínio factual sobre o qual Kant interpreta os predicados religiosos fundamentais: moralmente bom (...) e moralmente mau.After formulating in schematic way the fundamental problem of religion in Kant – that of deciding whether man is morally good or bad – the article discusses the his concept of religion of reason, emphasizing that Kant put forward a doctrine of religion without God, although not without the idea of God. Next, the article develops Kant´s views on human nature, and shows that these views delimit the factual domain of application to which are applied the fundamental predicates of religion, morally good and morally bad. (shrink)

Der Beitrag besch?ftigt sich mit dem Verh?ltnis von Hermeneutik und Ethik. Im Fokus dieser Betrachtung steht die narrative Hermeneutik des Selbst von Paul Ricoeur und ihr Versuch, mit Hilfe der Hermeneutik eine ethische Dimension der Wiedereinschreibung der narrativen Rekonfiguration der Handlungswelt in diese Handlungswelt selbst zu er?ffnen. Dabei wird auf die Grenzen eines solchen Ansatzes hingewiesen, dies insbesondere im Hinblick auf die dabei gemachten metaphysiklastigen Schritte in Richtung auf eine Position, die hinter der existential- und fundamentalontologischen Fragestellung des von Ricoeur (...) kritisierten Heidegger zur?ckzufallen scheint. Daher wird hier erneut auf Heidegger und seine Existenzialontologie zur?ckgegriffen, um sie im Zuge einer narrativistischen Umdeutung f?r die ethische Fragestelleung zu?ffnen. (shrink)

Određenje sreće kod Aristotela uvjetovano je s jedne strane samim ustrojstvom ljudske duše, a s druge strane uzajamnim odnosom teoretskog i praktičkog života. Osim u teoretskom životu sreća se postiže na određenoj razini i u praktičkom, odnosno političkom životu. Obuhvatnost pojma sreće sastoji se u tome da je ona djelovanje u skladu s etičkim vrlinama, a ujedno i postignuće najviše dijanoetičke vrline – mudrosti. Polazeći od razmatranja naravi užitka i mogućnosti ozbiljenja savršene sreće stječe se uvid u prirodnu nejednakost ljudi, (...) na kojoj se temelji Aristotelovo određenje različitog položaja ljudi u političkoj zajednici.Die Bestimmung der Glückseligkeit bei Aristoteles ist einerseits durch die Verfassung der menschlichen Seele und andererseits durch die gegenseitige Beziehung zwischen dem theoretischen und praktischen Leben bedingt. Ausser im theoretischen Leben wird die Glückseligkeit auf einer gewissen Ebene auch im praktischen, bzw. politischen Leben erreicht. Die Umfasslichkeit des Begriffs der Glückseligkeit liegt darin, dass sie als die Tätigkeit gemäss der ethischen Tugenden, sowie als die Verwirklichung der höchsten dianoethischen Tugend – Weisheit aufgefasst wird. Ausgehend von der Betrachtung der Natur des Genusses und der Möglichkeit der Verwirklichung der vollkommenen Glückseligkeit wird die Einsicht in die natürliche Ungleichheit der Menschen gewonnen, worauf sich dann die aristotelische Bestimmung von verschiedener Stellung der Menschen in der politischen Gemeinschaft gründet. (shrink)

Specifičnost današnjice je »kraj političkog«, pri čemu pojam demokracije i dalje predstavlja glavni zbirni termin za pružanje opsjene lažnih mogućnosti. Hannah Arendt ovdje je uzeta kao autor čiji pojam ‘djelovanje’ predstavlja odličan okvir onoga što bi ljudi u javnom području mogli zaista biti. U svezi toga, važne su njene analize kako se od početaka filozofije politike dogodilo reduciranje političkog odnosa na vladalački odnos. Također, njeno shvaćanje značaja slobode je u opoziciji spram tradicionalnog filozofskog ograničenja slobode na ‘unutrašnjost čovjeka’.Specificity of present (...) time is “the end of political”, where the term ‘democracy’ still represents the main collective term for making an illusion of false possibilities. Hannah Arendt is taken here as the author whose term ‘action’ represents what people in a public field could really be. Regarding that, her analysis about how did reduction of political relationship to the dynasty relationship happened, from the beginnings of philosophy of politics, is very important. Also, her understanding of the relevance of freedom is in opposition with traditional philosophical restriction of freedom to ‘human inside’. (shrink)

Após resumir as diferenças entre os paradigmas freudiano e winnicottiano da psicanálise , o presente trabalho passa a apresentar as idéias centrais da teoria winnicottiana da sexualidade. As principais teses defendidas são as seguintes: 1) Winnicott redescreveu a sexualidade a partir de duas raízes: a raiz instintual e a raiz identitária , 2) ele reescreveu o essencial da teoria psicanalítica tradicional desse fenômeno, e 3) ao fazer tudo isso, ele acrescentou elementos essenciais ao seu novo paradigma da psicanálise . Depois (...) de apresentar de maneira esquemática da concepção winnicottiana da raiz instintual e da raiz identitária da sexualidade, bem como algumas das sua implicações , , especificarei os conflitos sexuais correspondentes bem como os distúrbios que deles resultam . Na ultima parte do artigo , analisarei uma tese adicional de Winnicott, a de que ambas as raízes da sexualidade humana são fincadas no chão comum do processo de amadurecimento e que todos os conflitos do tipo sexual são relacionados ao conflito mais profundo entre o ser e o fazer, concebido como problema universal dos seres humanos inerente nesse processo.This paper has the aim to present the central ideas of Winnicott's theory of sexuality. The main thesis put forward being that Winnicott rewrote the psychoanalytic theory of this phaenomenon showing that it has two roots: instincts and interrelating a part from instinctual drives, the first giving origin to neuroses and the second to dissociations. After describing each one of these two roots, the article shows that they are related to a still deeper conflict, the one between being and doing, which is conceived by Winnicott as a universal problem emerging from the maturation process of human individuals. (shrink)