A cura em psicanálise como potência política de transformação.

Abstract

The present PHD thesis consists of being one more effort to question whether or not the psychoanalytic clinic undergoes a healing experience. The hypothesis is that the concept of healing will only be effective in psychoanalysis if it assumes critical position regarding the common-sense notion of healing. In accordance with Georges Canguilhem, the term healing does not contemplate transformation in the context of health sciences, instead it infers appropriateness to the ideal of health. Therefore, disease, abnormality and indeterminacy can only be seen as setbacks, that is, they are experiences that can only outcome normative failure, and consequently these experiences must necessarily be adjusted as a mean of ensuring social control strategies. From Freud to Lacan, Psychoanalysis has been marked as an attempt to found a clinic in which the cure of the individuals could not be conditioned to a complete absence of suffering, as a normalized and socially satisfactory value. Healing, in a sense, is to experience a condition that has no place and that cannot fit into the situation; in other words, it challenges the positive regime of determinacy. In Psychoanalysis, emphasizing the effectiveness of being critical on healing is a way of problematizing the political spirit of a totalizing vocation of life-form determinacy. Therefore, there is a political power of transformation to be considered in the experiments of indeterminacy, such as the psychoanalytic proposal of healing, which promotes an opening, to that what is inexpressible in the situation, to be the forewarning of still ignored norms.