Abstract

FERREIRA, Deborah Melo  and  CASTRO-ARANTES, Juliana Miranda. Cancer and Body:: a reading from psychoanalysis. Analytica [online]. 2014, vol.3, n.5, pp. 37-71. ISSN 2316-5197.

From the clinical experience with patients in an oncologic hospital, this article proposes a reflexion about the subjective effects of the body modifications caused by cancer and by medical treatment - as well as the adverse effects from chemotherapy and the mutilator surgery. The psychoanalysis teach us that the body, in human, is not previous and that it doesn´t coincides with the organism. It is inaugurated by the pulsao satisfaction dimension, which is equivalent to affirming that it is not at service to physiological needs, fact that marks the radical difference between human and animal. The pulsao is located between somatic and psychic, which brings as consequence the production of subjective effects related to an intervention in the body. Concerning the cancer context, the body modification resulting from the tumor growth confronts the subject with an imaginary vestment breakdown where he recognizes himself, it also can happened due the treatment's inherent modifications. Beyond the imaginary rupture with the reflection of a estrange body to the subject, the cancer can be related to traumatic, that interrupts life in an overpowering way. With the lacanian reading, we understand this experience from the dimension of the real that is what escape from symbolization and thefore to any form of subjective elaboration. The practice in this clinic reminds us the psychoanalysis bet of the treatment of the real by the symbolic, this is, by the word. As far as the subject speaks, he can create outings to what presents to himself as excessive, impossible understanding.

Keywords : Cancer; body; pulse; traumatic; real.

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