ABSTRACT
This article presents a reflection based on a theoretical framework built within a clinical area named as Language Clinic (Lier-DeVitto, 2002Lier-DeVitto, M. F. (2002). Questions on the normal-pathological polarity. Revista da ANPOLL, 1 (12), 169-186. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i12.510
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, 2006Lier-DeVitto, M. F. (2006). Patologias da linguagem: sobre as “vicissitudes de falas sintomáticas” In M.F. Lier-DeVitto, & L. Arantes (Eds.), Aquisição, Patologias e Clínica de Linguagem (pp. 183-200). EDUC.), an approach which articulates notions and concepts from both the European Structuralism, Saussure, and Jakobson, and from Psychoanalysis, Freud, and Lacan. Since Fonseca’s studies publications (1995Fonseca, S.C. (1995). Afasia: a fala em sofrimento [Dissertação de Mestrado]. Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem, PUC/SP. , 2002Fonseca, S.C. (2002). O afásico na Clínica de Linguagem [Tese de Doutorado]. Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem, PUC/SP., 2011Fonseca, S.C. (2011). Afasia: fala em sofrimento que faz sofrer um sujeito. In XVI Congresso Internacional de La Alfal. Obras colectivas de Humanidades. Acala de Henares, Universidad de Acala. ), aphasia can be understood as a complex phenomenon involving injured brain, disturbed speech, and a dramatic subjective situation. Taking into account the aphasic’s singular subjective condition, this article sustains the importance of deepening the discussion concerning the subjective drama, introducing mourning as a theoretical and clinical problem. We stress the fact that the aphasic sees her/himself imprisoned in a speech disorder which leads us to consider that he/she is under the effect of a strong shock in the entenglament of the real world, the symbolic and the imaginary registers (Lacan, 1985Lacan, J. (1985). O Seminário, livro 20: mais, ainda. Zahar. (Apresentação oral em em 1972-1973)./1972-3). Freud (1917) opens the discussion about mourning in psychoanalysis. His text and those of other psychoanalysts are addressed in this article. We argue that autobiographical texts are efficient linguistic tools for the therapist to deal with the aphasic patients’ clinical elaboration of mourning.
Keywords:
aphasia; mourning; writing; language clinic; psychoanalysis