This study investigated the contribution of Psychoanalysis in Medical Education at the Federal University of Pelotas, where the Medical Psychology course focuses on developing the student's listening capacity and comprehensive human understanding. The qualitative research involved focus groups composed of student monitors from the Extension Project in "Doctor Patient Relationship", with the discussions recorded and subjected to discourse and psychoanalytical content analysis as a case study. The most relevant topics were: knowledge and symbolic upshots; suffering in the face of death; social demands; unsatiable and cruel demands of the superego. Students/monitor, in the supposed-knowledge position in the group showed the capacity to sustain transferential relations. The students also demonstrated the courage to approach the other members supporting their own lack of knowledge, which presuppose the truth of the unconscious as fundamental. Small groups create and offer the opportunity to sustain differences, estrangement and emptiness, thus helping the individuals deal better with the reality check of absolute knowledge and the emergence of their own styles. The individual, with his particularities and responsibilities, is summoned to learn in the face of these challenges.
Medical Education; Medical Psychology; Psychoanalyses; Transference; Humanization