Escena, mirada y silencio en Extraviada

Abstract

In this article, I will present a reading of the case of Iris Cabezudo, as featured in Extraviada, by psychoanalysts Raquel Capurro and Diego Nin. This is a case of passage to the act (passage à l´acte), in which both the gaze and the scene have played a significant and determining role. I will read the case in dialogue with the novel The ravishing of Lol V. Stein, by Marguerite Duras. I take literature as both illuminating and questioning of supposedly stabilized theoretical-clinical notions. Duras’ novel will provide elements to reread Extraviada, challenging the supposed primacy of the Symbolic over the other registers of the Borromean knot: the Imaginary and the Real. The focus is placed on the Imaginary register, recovering the power of the image in the constitution of the Self and its relationship with the world and the Other; and on the Real, particularly in its relation to the act, especially the mad act, as that which overflows language. While the dimensions of speech and the Symbolic are not neglected, the article proposes a reading of the case that articulates all three registers.