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Actualidades en psicología

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Abstract

KELMAN, Mario Sergio. The notion of symptom at the intersection between the psychoanalitical clinic and the medical clinic. Actual. psicol. [online]. 2012, vol.26, n.113, pp. 33-50. ISSN 0258-6444.

There is a vast area of symptoms and phenomena that appear in the organism, which concern both the medical clinic and the psychoanalytic clinic. Both approach the pathological thing through the symptom, but they cut away different reals and propose incidents and differential treatments of the body and the jouissance. In consequence, it turns out necessary to approach a differential study of the notion of symptom, organized concerning the semiologycalsign and concerning the letter respectively. The psychoanalytic clinic is neither excluded nor opposed to the medical clinic; on the contrary, it continues it. The psychoanalysis returns the condition of the truth and of jouissance of the symptom that the speech of the science elides. The knowledge do system and the speeches compete. There is no possible intersection between medicine and psychoanalysis except in the fault precisely, and in the space of inconsistency of the knowledge, in the limit between one and the other.

Keywords : symptom; medicine; psychoanalysis; truth; jouissance.

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