Luto e desejo na menopausa: contribuições psicanalíticas

Menopause is the term indicated by the WHO to name the last biological cycle of the woman, in which there is the end of the female reproductive capacity. Noting that the topic of menopause seems to arouse little interest in the social and scientific spheres and was negatively connoted by psychoanalytic theory for a period, the purpose of this article is to outline some considerations of psychoanalysis, starting from Freud and Lacan, about the phenomenon. To this end, the concept of mourning is used as a theoretical operator to reflect on the theme and link it with the theory, passing through the speeches of menopausal women. It is considered, in this article, that the real of menopause can find a way of treatment that passes through mourning and the symbolic, reaching desire - thus placing other psychoanalytic contributions on the subject