Abstract

FERNANDES, Maria Helena. Where does the body start?. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2016, vol.38, n.61, pp.13-26. ISSN 0101-3106.

This article aims at revisiting the role of the body in Freud's theory, so as to foster a discussion on the specificity of the listening conditions, by the therapist, in the presence of the body in the analytic situation. We shall take as reference Pierre Fédida's thought-provoking question, in which, by quoting Georges Bataille and his belief that the body starts in the mouth, takes further the proposition that, after the Freudian construction, it is no longer possible to identify where the body starts. In order to look into such subject-matter, we intend to expound on the construction process of the idea of a psychoanalytic body according to Freud. We shall seek to demonstrate that Freud's theory consists of a particular approach concerning the body, in which alterity/otherness accounts for an essential element. Such fact certainly leads to clinical and methodological implications, thus bringing about a reflection into the nature of the efficacy of the analytic listening towards the various types of body presence in contemporary suffering.

Keywords : Body; Metapsychology; Alterity; Analytic listening.

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