Between Bodies
When Words Penetrate Bodies
Abstract
Proceeding from initial considerations about the importance of symptom formation for Psychoanalysis, in addition to its result as an incarnation of words in bodies, and a special focus on the symptoms of conversion hysteria, we propose some elements of analysis to observe a clinical case analyzed by Merleau-Ponty in Phenomenology of Perception. The significant incidence does not fail to mark the hysterical woman’s body, a mark that refers to the non-existence of a sexual relationship considered by the patient, not impossible, but forbidden by the maternal Other. This relationship with her loving partners – mother and boyfriend – leads her to devastation. In this way, because she believes in the existence of sexual relationships and the existence of an Absolute Other, death, she incarnates her symptom.
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