Deepening the analysis of Freud's social texts, we discover that, instead of mere psychoanalytic applications to the collective, they are prolongations of metapsychological boundaries, clinically relevant and, taken separately, accentuated poverty while psycho-social constructs. This result must be understood as a preamble to the continuation of the critic in a complementary direction: the rescue of the inherently social dimension presents in psychoanalytical concepts, just in appearance exclusively linked with clinical or metapsychological features. Doing it opens the perspective of developing a socially interventive psychoanalysis, without decrease of precision. The axis that enables it is linked with the concept of self, no more confused with the single person neither centered in the I. Trance, so present at ecstatic Brazilian cults, constitute an opportunity to verify this hypothesis. At trance, the Other enunciates itself in first person and its semiotic nature, far from excluding its psychic dimension, includes it, constituting a secure platform for a public and social approaching of the unconscious.
trance; ethnographic method; psychology and religions; psychoanalytical social psychology; syncretism