The authors created a dance workshop for schizophrenic patients designed to address their singular experience of space, in which the categories of interior and exterior do not function as limits. The space of the workshop, which, paradoxically, is thought in terms of the psychic space of schizophrenic patients by playing on its borderless quality, creates a continuity between the psychiatric hospital and the external world, and thus helps to prevent the segregation and isolation of such patients. This continuity is established on the basis of both the physical architecture of the workshop setting and the practice of dancing itself. The authors explore the hypothesis that, inside the particular space made possible by the apparatus of the workshop, schizophrenic patients benefit from the experience of movement, beginning with the pulse of rhythm, which establishes a consistency in time. By means of its repetitive character, the beat of music, like movement, accompanies and promotes the experience of continuity, which is the condition for any possible form of symbolizing. Two brief clinical illustrations show how this approach to dance therapy allows a moribund jouissance to be overturned and transformed into the aesthetic jouissance that characterizes the experience of dance.
Transgressão é uma noção que com muita frequência é esquecida, estigmatizada, ou atribuída pela doxa psicanalítica a uma estrutura em particular: a perversão. A transgressão faz pensar na infração, na desordem, na liberdade. Essa liberdade, contudo, depende paradoxalmente da lei, ao ponto de lei e transgressão algumas vezes poderem se confundir. Veremos como a transgressão se liga aos conceitos de desejo, fantasma e gozo, por meio das contribuições de Bataille e de Lacan, destacando os pontos de encontro e os de divergência entre esses dois autores, 'transgressores', sem sombra de dúvida.
Taking their inspiration from a case history, the authors explore the effects of a writing workshop led by a professional writer for patients in a psychiatric hospital. This workshop allowed different modes of transference to unfold: transference to the analyst-therapist, transference to the writer who led the workshop, and transference to the other members of the group. The writing activity created conditions in which there could be a movement from hallucination to delusion-a delusion expressed in fiction through the act of writing. Psychotic patients "invent" a writing that remains unfinished and that relates to the experiences of persecution. Writing thus makes it possible for them to tolerate language, through its transformation into writing.
RESUMO: O gozo feminino é considerado por Lacan como Outro em relação ao do homem. Em todo caso, este gozo é difícil de ser discernido, ainda mais que ele pode, como nos mostra a clínica, ser facilmente simulado por uma mulher. Mas por que uma mulher se coloca na posição de simular um orgasmo? O que está em jogo para ela nessa prática? Tentaremos mostrar que a simulação não é apenas sinônimo de frigidez. Não que ela não o possa ser, mas a simulação é também fonte de prazer para uma mulher e, de forma pardoxal, algo capaz de favorecer o "encontro" com o outro.
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