Abstract

COELHO JUNIOR, Nelson Ernesto. From intercorporeality to co-corporeality: elements for a Clinical Practice of Psychoanalysis. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2010, vol.44, n.1, pp. 51-60. ISSN 0486-641X.

This paper intends to establish the basic elements of a clinical practice of psychoanalysis based on the experience of co-corporeality. The notion of corporeality is defined as a material and energetic fabric, both mobile and unstable; it is moved by driving forces, with its remission to the objects and marked by interference of internal and external intensities, constituting a field of forces and proto-meanings. It is proposed that the driving dimension cannot be expelled from corporeality, nor can the ego and the unconscious. However, the relational dimension (the proper intersubjective dimension of the analytical situation) cannot be denied either. Thus, the necessary permanent tension between intersubjective and intrapsychic dimensions is emphasized in clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis. A preference for cocorporeality over intercorporeality is also stressed, because the emphasis should not be placed on the idea of "between" corporealities, but on the idea of the co-presence of two corporealities, which carry within themselves the ego and the other.

Keywords : corporeality; intersubjectivity; analytic field; metapsychology.

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