Interview: Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker

Abstract

The psychoanalyst Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker is a lecturer professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo (USP). A Jaboti Award Winner in the Psychology and Psychoanalysis category with the book titled Estrutura e constituição da clínica psicanalítica: uma arqueologia das práticas de cura, psicoterapia e tratamento (Structure and constitution of the psychoanalytic clinic: an archeology of the practices of cure, psychotherapy and treatment) (Annablume, 2011), he has done important work in these two areas, publishing articles and a section in the Mente e Cérebro and Cult magazines. In this interview,¹ Dunker discusses issues such as the current moment of psychoanalysis, its interface with dialectical thinking, the issue of ideology, as well as other topics that contribute to understanding the current malaise, especially in countries where there is hyper late capitalism such as Brazil.