Abstract

ROCHA, Guilherme Massara. Biopolitics and contemporaneity: medical act and psychoanalytical act. Epistemo-somática [online]. 2007, vol.4, n.2, pp.109-117. ISSN 1980-2005.

This article takes M. Foucault´s concept of biopolitics on review, in order to specify it´s actuality and particularities on contemporary discussion of medical and psychological treatment. S. Freud´s concept of "original helplessness" is also taken on discussion, mostly because of it´s connections with the problem of medical treatment and subjectivity. In order to show that the work of the psychoanalyst has it´s own determinations on this context, the concept of analytical act is also taken on discussion.

Keywords : Biopolitics; Psychoanalysis; Medicine; Cure.

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