The work of poetry in the treatment of psychosis

Abstract:

In this article, the link between psychoanalysis and poetics is questioned in relation to the treatment of psychoses. The work of poetry is investigated in the hearing and reading of the subject of the unconscious, that is, in the establishment of the Discourse of Psychoanalysis. The notion proposed by Lacan as lalangue subsidizes such articulation. Then, in the search for the traces of the work of poetry (of the unconscious), aspects of three famous experiences in the field of psychoses are discussed: Schreber, Marcelle and Wolfson. Finally, poetic sonority (musicality) emerges as a possibility of intervention in the direction of a treatment that does not neglect the subject of the unconscious in psychoses.

Keywords: Psychoanalysis; poetics; psychoses