Psychoanalysis and the autobiographical phenomenon

Gestures of dispossession

Abstract

Starting from the assumption that Psychoanalysis and Literary Autobiography are easily associable experiences as they involve the activity of "speaking about oneself," we problematize this assumption based on the ways in which Psychoanalysis considers the idea of the subject (unconscious than determined) and the evocations that the analytic scene seeks to provoke. Additionally, we aim to briefly explore how the field of literary autobiography also questions the forms of representation of the subject who writes, where the enunciative position of authorship can be a subject of indeterminacy and alterity crossing. The concept of dispossession, as guided by Judith Butler (2015), that the subject does not own itself but is dispossessed by happenings and alterities that encounter them, provided the basis for the articulation between the analytic experience and self-writing. Finally, we understand that the relationship between these experiences not only reveals their interconnections but also can generate inquiries, tensions, and reinventions.