
04/06/2025
Psychoanalysis is often confused with Psychology, which focuses more on behavior and helping people adjust or cope with situations. Psychoanalysis, on the other hand, works with the unconscious. And when we talk about the unconscious, we’re not referring to something hidden deep in the mind in a dark or mysterious way—but rather something concrete that emerges through speech. A psychoanalyst pays close attention to the way someone speaks: how they choose their words, what slips out, what gets repeated. In those moments, something we call the subject—the subject of the unconscious—can start to appear.
Claudionor Antonio Simões, Psychoanalist