Escrevivência and Psychoanalysis: research, clinic and formation

Abstract

This article discusses the intersection between escrevivência [live-writing] as a methodology that can be articulated with Psychoanalysis and three different levels or dimensions of transmission in psychoanalytic clinic: a clinical dimension, linked to the very experience of analysis; a didactic dimension, which connects the politics of writing with the transmission and teaching of Psychoanalysis; and an epistemic dimension, which involves the construction of a field of knowledge that does not exclude the subject, their body, life, and history. We propose that, in all three dimensions, there is a temptation to reduce the real to knowledge, and that escrevivência offers an opposing path, shifting this reduction or concealment. We revisit some references on the function of the matheme and the letter, as Lacan presents in lituraterra, to reflect on the affinity between escrevivências and the transmission of Psychoanalysis. We use the reference of Conceição Evaristo’s rereading of Macabéa to delimit the political and clinical importance that this writing practice implies for listening to blackness, the feminine, and peripheral, subalternized and/or dissident knowledge.