Abstract

VALE, Keyla Carolina Perim  and  BORGES, Luana Silva. Alliance with death: the duck and the tulip. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2017, vol.51, n.4, pp. 183-198. ISSN 0486-641X.

The purpose of this writing is to understand how we can experience death - this death that is present in our clinical practice - either in our vivid everyday life or in our patients' daily routine. The authors start this paper from the literary analysis of the children's book Duck, death, and the tulip, written by Wolf Erlbruch. It is an analysis based on the ideas of authors such as Antonio Candido and E. M. Forster. In a second moment, the authors present a clinical report of sessions with a patient who is herein called Lady Girl. She is almost 100 years-old and she reminds us of characters of Erlbruch's book, because of her attempts to find words for the unnamable side of death. The reflections that result from this reading help us understand the reality of the setting, especially regarding the elements of figurability that arose during the sessions with Lady Girl. In the psychoanalytic field, the paper follows Freud's, Bion's, and Grotstein's works. This theoretical scope enables us to both understand the myriad senses of the book and reflect on the clinical practice.

Keywords : death; life; figurability; psychoanalysis; literature.

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