TITLE:
Particularities of the Psychoanalytical Clinic of Aging: Construction of Clinical Cases
AUTHORS:
José Maurício da Silva, Jacqueline de Oliveira Moreira
KEYWORDS:
Aging, Psychoanalytical Clinic, Sublimation
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.6,
June
22,
2016
ABSTRACT: This paper proposes to think the
psychoanalytical clinic of aging as moved by challenges brought about by the
considerable increase in the number of elderly people nowadays. By questioning
the role of psychoanalysis in culture and supported by clinic experience, we
think about the psychoanalytical clinic of aging while including
interdisciplinary contributions and interventions. This approach defends
sublimation as a means of sustaining the wish and, above all, as a means of
transformation provided by social bonds, aiming to put the subject as the
leader of his own history and assuming that investment is what upholds
existence. There is no age for desire. Through this principle, one must “bet on
life” even when the body becomes “an arena for diseases”, always pointing
towards death. Thus, psychoanalysis summons “the subject” to the hearing and
remembering which enable his/her own histories and reconcile him/her with the
legitimacy of his/her own wish.