An investigation on the Function of Writing in the Psychoanalytic Clinic

Abstract

The Master’s thesis entitled “The Function of Writing in the Psychoanalytic Clinic. Clinical Specificity: the symptom as a plot between signifier and letter “displays the question of the place of writing in psychoanalysis, which is presented as enigmatic because it can be both explanatory support of multiple theoretical aspects and interstitial articulator of the elaborations that inhabit the very limit of the concept in psychoanalysis. This controversial impact of the notion of writing motivated us to assume a problematizing position on the interpellations that bring us closer to clinical work. From approaching this hypothetical structure in an exhaustive work of interlocution with the Freudian and Lacanian elaborations, we produced a series of tentative premises about the limits that make up the notional field of writing and, consequently, the itinerary of articulations with other visualized concepts through the conductive thread of the symptom, in as much, evidence to the own psychic structuring.