PREVIDELLO, João Pedro Gomes; SALVADOR, Isadora Nicastro    PALMA, Claudia Maria de Sousa. The body to the letter: The symptom between knowledge and jouissance. Estud. pesqui. psicol. []. 2019, 19, 1, pp.166-186. ISSN 1808-4281.

The article proposes to analyse the specificity of the concept of body, from drive and symptomatic formation, in order to reflect upon the difference in treatment of the clinic configurations that escape the symbolic construction. These organizations, by disregarding the psychic mechanisms ordered by repression and the unconscious work of condensation and displacement, disrobe a body barely dressed by symbolic, therefore, with important issues to address and include the otherness. As a consequence, the symptom is not chained by the free association mecanism, nor guided itself by the search of something in the other. Appears as real in the body, tying to the drive's compulsion trait of repetition. Therefore, we emphasize the prevalence of an arrangement in which the object a predominates as a letter, rest, whose function is to represent an illiterate subject, in the sense of being unaware of what is produced in its own body. For the clinic management, the analyst is summoned to another place, different from the occupied in the treatment of neurotic symptoms. It is a clinic of the act, oriented to a re-arrangement of letters to realize the required demarcation in that jouissance that erupts in the body.

: lacanian psychoanalysis; body in psychoanalysis; letter.

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