Producción de inconsciente

condiciones de inscripción en la clínica contemporánea

Abstract

This essay challenges the traditional view of psychoanalysis as an archaeology that excavates an unconscious already constituted as a repository of repressed representations. While acknowledging the partial validity of this metaphor, it is argued that in many contemporary clinical settings what predominates is not the return of the repressed, but rather failures in primary inscription: drive intensities that fail to link to signifiers, experiences that are not enacted or that burst forth as pure impact without symbolic form. Drawing on Freud (primordial repression, drive economy) and, especially, Lacan (the distinction between automaton and tychê), the essay proposes understanding the unconscious as the effect of an inscription operation through which drive excitement finds its letter in the erogenous body. When this inscription fails or is insufficient, mute repetition akin to trauma prevails; when it is achieved, the experience enters the interpretable symbolic order. Analytical work, then, is not reduced to deciphering: at certain moments it must produce the unconscious, fostering conditions for inscription in transference, skirting symbolic gaps, and sustaining the passage from the raw real to the signifying mark. This perspective converges with contributions by Laplanche (enigmatic seduction), Deleuze and Guattari (productive unconscious), Rolnik (sensitive body), and others, and is linked to the changing times: performance-driven societies that either saturate or deplete processes of symbolization. The distinction between interpreting what is already established and creating the conditions for its emergence defines much of current clinical practice and its future.