Abstract

PESSOA, Silvana. The word and its healing power: the word as a drug. Stylus (Rio J.) [online]. 2017, n.34, pp.119-128. ISSN 1676-157X.

This article tries to investigate in what manner, by the operation of the signifier, there are people who cure themselves, even though the analyst is not possessed by the desire to cure. To answer this question, the author works on the concept of moterialism, the word as a drug, and articulates this with the new discoveries by the neurosciences, particularly those developed by neuroscientist Eric Kendal. This essay defends that the analyst is someone who knows the trick of how to cure a neurosis without the use of medications. In order to do this, it is necessary that the analyst is referenced by the nature of the language - the materiality of words, the sounds, the poetic function, the way people communicate (combination of words, pronunciations, sound and rhythmic effects) more than by the referential or denotative function of their speech (the subject or content of a piece of information).

Keywords : Lacan; neuroscience; moterialism; word; drug.

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