Clinical and Theoretical Practices: Inventing Fictions to Make Symbiotes

By Mathilde Kiening, translated from French by the author and Thamy Ayouch
English

Beyond an analysis of the theoretical tensions that can be encountered in psychoanalysis, I propose to write new fictions, which do not ignore their heritage, but transmute it. This article, based on clinical practice and research as part of a CIFRE thesis, argues that there is a theoretical practice that is fiction open to invention. Starting from the hypothesis that the “political symbiotes” is of interest to psychoanalytic practice-theory, I will unveil the methodological entanglements (of schizo-analysis allied to diffraction) that such a supposition imply. In this way, I hope that the proposal of a theoretical fiction will carry with it a practical supposition that deals with the making of names and worlds: “political symbiote”.

Keywords

  • psychoanalysis
  • fiction
  • symbiotes
  • entanglement
  • methodology
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