Topics In Health

Frequently hear around us that "health is the most important", "first sound, everything else is secondary" or "we must take care to stay healthy." And not bad to start there, however, when possibly take action we realize that we must add those sentences more in line with our other health goals, and we check that the results emerging accompany our good intentions.

Have you asked yourself what is health?. WHO defines it as the state of complete physical, mental and social, is that possible?, Is the only health is the absence of disease?.

From the analysis can not separate the body or psyche, or social, so both in the production of health and disease we think the individual from these three instances, which, in turn, can generate three orders of illness: organic, psychological and psychosomatic. The symptom such as Freud puts it, the more the social order and deals among other things, the individual's relationship to reality. In the neurosis, the individual flees from reality who knows refuge in fantasy, but in psychosis the subject transforms an unknown reality, in both cases the difficulties of love and work are noticeable. What would a normal person?, Would be one who knows the reality but it does not flee but transforms.

Thus, between the neurotic, the psychotic and the normal subject, there are similarities and differences. The similarity is that all three mechanisms are the same, everyone repressed, forecloses, denies, namely, there is no qualitative difference between them, if any, the neurotic would not be curable. The structure of the psychic apparatus is the same in all three: conscious-unconscious, superego-it-self. Unconscious processes conscious, repression, denial. Does anybody can say we did not perform a ritual never obsessed?, However that we are not categorized as obsessive, you can not say that we are sick, although at times or in some phrases fall into positions neurotic, hysterical, perverse, and so on. What determines the disease is the particular way each subject to give up the desire, the way pact with the Law

And is that the disease of human beings is not accepting being mortal, speaker, subject of language, ie the disease is not knowing mortal subject. In this way symptoms that could be just the word become flesh in the subject, unable to speak or write, even when in full power to do so, disabling it for work or love. A man who still want to know mortal death, a subject that seeks "a state of complete physical, mental and social" when completeness is impossible in humans, is closer to God than of man.'s mistakes, slips, lapses, dreams are manifestations of our unconscious, speak of a true desire. Accept that these things happen to us is a step towards health. If you are a psychotic named query at the time of your session, ring the bell, lying on the couch and talk, is no longer psychotic, and is a subject in analysis .

Health is thus not the end, health is the very means to achieve it, is when I can enjoy being a mortal, who speaks and whose sexuality is his word. It is the ability to replace, ie displacement compared with a loss, the possibility of transforming the phrases that refer to a family ideology to state standards for others. Add new words, a break leading to a new way of living. The health, will have to do with the ability to accept the imbalance, uncertainty as to the subject's psychic harmony does not exist, that does not mean we can not get it, but not find it.

One way is through the creation of psychoanalysis. If there is a degeneration of the device, if it is a matter of inheritance, if health is not an earlier time but that we rebuild a production of the subject, if the daily life is subject to sentences pronounced, the possibility of treatment is feasible, the possibility of building a new subject by means of psychoanalytic work is viable.

Susana Lorente

Psychologist-Psychoanalyst