Abstract

COPPUS, Alinne Nogueira Silva. The body's place in the borromean rings: inhibition, symptom and anxiety. Tempo psicanal. [online]. 2013, vol.45, n.1, pp. 15-27. ISSN 0101-4838.

The body is part of the psychoanalytic process. Psychoanalysis began trying to discover another reality, beyond consciousness, that inhabits the body: the unconscious reality. The body is presented as an instrument which, in neurosis, stages the impasses of the subject regarding wish and jouissance through symptom, inhibition and anxiety. In Lacan's formulations on the borromean rings, we find precious indications for our clinical work with what the body presents. The borromean rings represent a new device that can help the analyst during the analysis. With it, the analyst puts signifiers apart as well as links them together, emphasizes relevant issues, asks questions, offer words and, mostly, points out the dimension of the hole which can be found in the subject's speech and in his way of jouissance.

Keywords : body; rings; inhibition; symptom; anxiety.

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