The Logic of the Signifier as a Basic and Fundamental Principle in a Process of Psychotherapy - Analysis for Healing a Patient: The Unconscious Is Structured like a Language

Abstract

This study considers the logic of the signifier structures the subjectivity of each individual, whom, affected by language, we call as subject; a subject of the unconscious; the discourse of the Other. Therefore, it has a significant relationship with the suffering/discomfort of the patient in the psychotherapeutic/psychoanalytic clinic, as well as in their well-being and healing. The symptoms are subjective and are the effect of the signifier on the body of our analysand is commonly known socially as a patient; classified as deviant, affected, inverted, or excluded from a norm. They are rejected or shown indifference.

Presenters

Benjamin Buzali
Psychoanalysis, Clinical Psychology / Personality Disorders, Clinical Psychologist, México, Mexico

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

2021 Special Focus—Advancing Health and Equity: Best Practices in an International Perspective

KEYWORDS

LANGUAGE, SUBJECT, OBJECT, OTHER, SIGNIFIER, LINGUISTICS, PSYCHOTHERAPY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, SYMPTOM

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