Write or disappear? Inscription attempts
Rousseau, Delphine
Write or disappear? Inscription attempts - 2021.
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Through her account of an encounter with a psychotic patient in a writing workshop in a psychiatric hospital, the author explores the relationship between the trace and the meaning of what is written. She looks at the resonances between the insecurity of her institutional position and the difficulties this man has in existing. The patient elicits the function of the third party on several entangled levels: the written text, the carer, the carer’s written text, and the institution. The author shows how these recourses serve as containing psychic envelope for the patient, protecting him from his death-anxieties and protecting both patient and carer against the risk of fascination/excitation.
Write or disappear? Inscription attempts - 2021.
66
Through her account of an encounter with a psychotic patient in a writing workshop in a psychiatric hospital, the author explores the relationship between the trace and the meaning of what is written. She looks at the resonances between the insecurity of her institutional position and the difficulties this man has in existing. The patient elicits the function of the third party on several entangled levels: the written text, the carer, the carer’s written text, and the institution. The author shows how these recourses serve as containing psychic envelope for the patient, protecting him from his death-anxieties and protecting both patient and carer against the risk of fascination/excitation.
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