An ENCOUNTER BETWEEN TWO FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGE

THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH AND LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AN INTERVENTION WITH A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH CRONYCLE ILLNESSES

Abstract

The present article addresses an experience with a group of young people with chronic diseases, in the area of pediatric rheumatology, coordinated by two researchers, anchored in two fields of knowledge: The Philosophy of Health and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. The gathering point between these two fields of knowledge occurred due to the affinity in the discursive position in relation to pain, suffering and death as inherent elements to the human condition, therefore impossible of being eliminated from the human experience by any knowledge and technology. Human issues of an existential nature were worked in groups, using literary-philosophical texts that allowed speech and exchange between the participants, the emergence of their subjectivity, the construction of a symbolic tissue, allowing the group to sew something in the hole that was wide open by the illness and throughout the meetings became clear in the young people’s reports.