Theories in psychosomatics have been drawn up in the confrontation between psychoanalysis and medicine. In spite of the advances in techno-scientific medicine, present-day psychoanalysis, carried out in the context of this fertile confrontation, often brings up new aspects for consideration. The present article adds to the “instant of saying,” a notion developed by M-J. Del Volgo, the notion of “analogization,” founded on the analysis of analogy as a figure of speech. The presentation of the case of a patient suffering from eczema gives fuller consistency to this notion, the effects of which may in fact renew the “defectological” perspective proper to the current known as “psychosomatic.”
Psychosomatics; psychoanalysis; analogy; eczema