Between the classificatory frenzy and the listening to subjective events: Divergences between psy disciplines and analytical clinical practice

Abstract

The psy disciplines are inheritors of the moral treatments conducted during the 19th century, that legacy has infiltrated their praxis and their reflection on it, delineating a particular methodological procedure, which tends to pay more attention to what discursively demand the prevailing institutions rather than what is aroused in the psychic order, which correlates with the emergence and proliferation of therapies without subject that take the diagnosis as the central axis of their practice, leaving out what makes us human: the subjective field. The pressing insistence on standardizing inner life in favor of the rapid (re)integration into the word of productivity has been consolidated as an imperative that demands to create devices that enhance technique, dismissing the reflections and questions that emerge in the encounter with singularity. Hence, the objective of this article is to analyze some of the clinical positions of both psychology and psychoanalysis in order to analyze, from a critical position, the foundations, discourses and power relations that precede and sustain the praxis of both disciplines.