O uso de si e o saber fazer com o sintoma no trabalho

Abstract

This thesis objectives to address the relationship between work and mental health from ergological notion of the use of oneself and also the one from psychoanalytic symptom, aiming mainly to research and do clinical intervention. In order to do that, we tried to correlate the discursive bases which support and subsidize the practices in both analytical and ergological devices, finding their interfaces and specificities. To think of the use of oneself in the symptoms with work aims to make it clear the unique functioning way of each subject in both dimensions, meaning and reference, which comprise the symptom when facing the working environment. Since the symptom is what ties the real, symbolic and imaginary registers together, our argumentation is that the symptomatic complain which the subject presents in his relation with the work gives what is needed to understand the symbolic and imaginary dimensions that comprise the meaning given to symptom. It is also important to be attentive to the real dimension of the enjoyment that the symptom involves because it is its reference. In one reading of the symptom as the use of oneself, at the same time psychoanalytically and ergologically, we tried to recognize not only the social determination of the symptom (the use of oneself by the others) but also an action strategy over this determination (in the use of oneself by oneself, always present). Its about wagering on the subject, in his singular use of the symptom as to make it emerge over the social determination that could overcome him.