More body, less subject? Echoes of an experience in rehabilitation rooms

Abstract

The question about what a psychoanalyst does with the body of a patient in the rehabilitation rooms gives an opportunity: to place a clinical problem. Faced to a physical limit, it’s evident that the prevalence of the body is detrimental to the subjectivity. In this article the concept of body is explored through the psychoanalysis, the disability paradigms and the basis of the rehabilitation as a discipline. In this field, the psychoanalytic clinic turns out to be useful, since the dimension of the biological issue implies the subject. It’s beeing concluded that to involve the subjectivity, offers a relevant contribution to the improvements of rehabilitation treatments.