This text presents an analysis of a psychic organization marked by severe perverse traits, taking manifestations of the body-time implication as a central theme. The novel “Loucura...,”’ by the Portuguese poet Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890-1916) is used as a basis for analysis. The overvaluation of the ego and the correlate disqualification of the object are discussed, the object then being raised to the condition of a fetish as the subject tries to avoid the castration anxiety and the recognition of difference between the sexes. Also discussed is the question regarding to what extent being immersed in narcissistic plenitude creates an illusion of eternal time, without threats and without anxieties.
Finally, with certain illusory guarantees eliminated, the subject is seen in a situation of total helplessness in the face of unavoidable psychic collapse.
Body; fetish-object; narcissism; temporality and helplessness