O corpo como superfície de inscrição do sintoma e do acontecimento de corpo

Abstract

We found in psychoanalytic clinical practice the increased demands for analysis of patients who use the body as a means of expression of psychological distress. This finding, coupled with the interest in the symptom thesis as an event of the body, presented by Lacan (1979), motivated this research, calling us to formalize a theoretical knowledge that could guide the clinical practice. The central problem of our research is to broaden the understanding of how the body presents itself in the current symptomatic expressions, making a conceptual mapping of the symptoms in both its symbolic dimension, in which Lacan corroborates Freud's ideas, since he claims that the symptom is an unconscious message, as in its drive dimension, in which the symptom is understood by Lacan as a jouissance mode, writing and real dimension. The research general objective is to draw a distinction between somatizations, hysterical conversions, psychosomatic phenomena and the body event. Knowing that psychoanalysis arises in the face of the medical speech impossibility in responding to somatic symptoms, together with Freud's desire for knowing, we consider that the resumption of this discussion, through the event of the body, can enable a work to distinguish the psychic suffering forms who have their inscription surface on the body. Aiming at an adequate systematization for the articulation between clinical data and theory, we chose to make a return to concepts of Freud and Lacan's work revised in the light of the event of the body. We work with the hypothesis that the event of the body comes from the lalangue's traumatic inscription on the body, referring to the experience of things that are heard and that at first do not attach to any sense. Therefore, Freud's traumatic encounters' contingencies are added to the contingency of also traumatic first saying, producing a body event. Thus, the psychic symptom, capable of affecting the somatic and which very early aroused interest in Freud leading him to the constitution of psychoanalysis, seems to go a long way to reach the end of Lacan's teaching in the form of body event. Given the Freudian instant of seeing, depurated by the time to understand, the symptom, left in what it is – an event of the body - brings the moment to conclude in the Lacanian teaching.