Abstract

BARONE, Leda Maria Codeço. Narrating clinical practice: amid tradition and rupture. J. psicanal. [online]. 2013, vol.46, n.85, pp.119-126. ISSN 0103-5835.

No one is unacquainted with the fact that Freud was an excellent writer, and that, in his clinical writings, he saw himself impelled to tell a history of the sickened, rather than a history of the sickness, inaugurating a literary genre. Since the early stages of Psychoanalysis, clinical writing has aroused the interest of numerous authors who seek to study its style, breadth and relationship to theory. In this article, clinical writing will be studied in the perspective of the psychoanalytic method, in dialogue with Benjaminian ideas about the end of traditional narrative and how they were worked on by Gagnebin, with the objective of connecting two issues: the nature of clinical writing and the lieu the analyst occupies in the transferential relationship. The analyst sustains the lieu of witness in the clinical setting of third party, able to listen to the unbearable narrative of another. He collects the leftovers, the unsayable, the fragments and parapraxes in the history told by the patient, allowing for the emergence of a narrative able to articulate past, present and future, not in a homogenous continuity, but accounting for ruptures, the absurd and the gaps of meaning that make themselves present in the transferential field.

Keywords : narrative; clinical practice; psychoanalytic method; witness.

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