Contaminated

Abstract

In connection with the consumption of substances, both the prominence of the body and the need for multi, inter and/or transdisciplinary approaches, with their production of theoretical and practical intersections
regarding the so-called «addictions», seem undisputable. This paper is an attempt to reflect on the place this subject has in the
psychoanalytic consideration in our country. Psychoanalytic discourse, in its disciplinary crusade, results simplified
or translated into psychological language, which makes our profession omitted or absent, at the same time as it becomes contaminated and dominated by other concepts and models of the body. The fascinating globalizing certainties of the manuals, the imperative force of the biological body at risk, the unquestionable forcefulness of social marginalization, become dominant, impregnate us and far from establishing a dialogue with them, we let the singularity of the subjects get round us. However, the unconscious imposes itself, convokes our analytic stance, and, even there, where the subjects would be erased, where we would only see the pathology, the antisocial, the contaminated ones, the «other» body appears,fleetingly and by surprise.