Coppel-Batsch, Marthe
When the Talking Treatment Becomes a Written Work
- 2007.
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— Recounting a session in writing is not simply a question of communicating with one’s colleagues, and also lies at the heart of a literary genre that appeared with the advent of clinical practice. The author considers Queneau’s poem Chêne et chien, in which the latter tells the story of a psychoanalysis. The art of poetry reveals itself to be particularly suited to expressing what happens in this encounter.