Article originated from the mastership dissertation Oskar Pfister´s legacy: a christian course on psychoanalysis (Universidade de São Paulo - 1999). Following Freud’s lutheran disciple motivation, Oskar Pfister, (1897 -1956) to adopt psychoanalysis as a model of his clinic acts, the essay tries to name the central themes which are present in the production of this author and that determine his peculiarity relates to Freud’s presentations: the acceptance of the unique vital force against the freudian instinctual duality; the presentation of conscious sublimation; and the purpose of a moral analysis by an idealistic analyst. Attempts to point the relevance of this study’s field, indicating the particular transferal relation originated from Pfister’s propositions . The multiple visions of the world that are shared in contemporaneouness and the conscience dimension’s comprehension is taken as appropriate questions. Relates analyst’s concrete experience , his direct contact with Pfister’s propositions, to a discomfort legacy which is welcomed by the analyst which is committed to examine his personal beliefs . Finally suggests the Pfister’s discomfort as a necessary counterpoint to the constitutive essential distress pointed by psychoanalysis.
Vital force; Conscious sublimation; Moral analysis; Analyst beliefs; Discomfort-distress