O ensino de Misael Matraga: quatro lições sobre a função da escrita nas psicoses

Abstract

This research aimed to clarify the thesis that there is an articulation between the “hors-discours” of psychosis and the practice of the letter of the writers, starting from Lacan´s orientation, in the 1975-1976 seminar, The synthome: the distinction between the “savoir-y-faire” with artists´ “lalangue” occurs at the level writing. In accordance with the political, tactical and strategic principles that guide the researching psychoanalyst, and by the premise that psychosis teach us and that we should not retreat in the face of the effects of foreclosure, the clinical case, Misael Matraga, was used for this research. Declared unimputable, Misael found himself written on the list of irresponsible people, subjected to this kind of perpetual penalty, the security measure, a device that updates the worst of the alliance between legal and psychiatric discourse. However, thanks to a multidisciplinary team guided by the principles of Sistema Único de Saúde (Brazil´s public health system), he was referred to clinical care, where he could create the necessary contingencies for a unique disintegration. If, in the psychiatric evaluation, Misael´s schizophrenic sayings were rejected, given that the direction of the cure was “to speak normally”, his engagement in the analytical treatment took place exactly by dismantling the word. The “destraqueumatização” was a treatment that summoned the analyst as a scribe, that is, someone capable of take notes of Misael´s testimony to the letter – through the “moterialité” of the signifier, it was possible to inscribe, write and read a TERROREMA(), stabilization and anchoring point for the attempted loop. In these terms, this thesis consists of Misael´s teaching, supported by four lessons: first lesson, the function of the clinical case; second lesson, the function of diagnosis; third lesson, the secretary function; fourth lesson, the role of criminal law. Each of these lessons seeks to articulate the function of writing in psychosis and the clinical writing of the analyst, which does not necessarily presuppose a writing clinic, rigorously showing the specificity of the research conducted by an analyst