VIVIANE DUBOL PROSTITUTION, BETWEEN BODILY ORIFICES AND WORDS, AN EXPERIENCE OF SUBJECTIVATION ?
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This article attempts a
clinical reflection about the act of prostitution and the psychical
stakes it puts into play. A review of the history of research hypotheses
and important moments allows us to stress to what extent knowledge of
the anamnesis and traumas is insufficient for understanding the destiny
of prostitution. Listening to clinical cases led me to take into account
the force of words that have the value of an injunction, such as the
“ You’re just a prostitute ” or the “ I’m
a prostitute ” constructed by the subject. It is within this context
of sensitivity to words that the function of the “ fourth character
” was deployed, as a figure of the social female Other to whom
the act of prostitution is addressed and what is at stake in it for
the subject. In fact, and this is our working hypothesis, the erotology
of some of the prostitute’s tricks would contribute to the construction
of oneself through the auto-erotic experiences involving the bodily
orifices and what psychoanalysis calls the little a object. What we
describe of the “ symbolic trick ” suggests that love is
not absent from such a process of subjectivation. |
Key-words Clinical research, Prostitution, Injunction, Fourth character, Self, Auto-eroticism, Subjectivation. |