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OROZCO GUZMAN, Mario  e  PAVON-CUELLAR, David. Clinic and politics of the word in psychoanalysis. Andamios [online]. 2021, vol.18, n.47, pp.469-492.  Epub 17-Out-2022. ISSN 2594-1917.  https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v18i47.885.

This article discerns and examines certain political aspects of speech that are considered crucial in the psychoanalytic clinic. The subject is approached first through the cases of hysteria in which psychoanalysis originates and then in other moments of the development of Freud’s work, such as those corresponding to Interpretation of dreams and to Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego, among others. The liberating potential of speech, its relationship with power, with repression and censorship, and its trivalent function to inhibit violence, to incite it or to repair its deleterious effects are discussed. The route continues with the role of speech in episodes of microhistory inhabited by a deadly silence. Finally, Freud and Bullit’s analysis of the personality of the American President Thomas Woodrow Wilson is reconsidered and re-dimensioned to show the effects of a case of total assimilation of the political to speech.

Palavras-chave : Psychoanalysis; clinic; politics; elaboration; statement.