Singularity and the clinical-therapeutic work

Abstract

This article approaches the singularity associated with every clinical-therapeutic work, as it represents an environment where the self can be revealed. Based on the case report of a child under psychoanalytical treatment, the article points the ways through which the child’s subjectivity progressively surfaces, expressing the need to live with the other, a human experience that allows her to be a person and to be herself. It also highlights the importance of this perception, since clinical-therapeutic approaches of different origins can be proposed. The absence of language and the social pressure for it to emerge can lead to a type of work that is centered on alterity, where the child acquires and develops language in the presence of the other. The author proposes, by means of the clinical work presented, that the patient’s need was more basic: she needed to experience a fusion with another human being in order to be able to distinguish herself from the other. This would create the conditions for the development of inter-psychic relations, which represent the basis through which language will be structured and the speech and language therapy can be developed.