Abstract
This article seeks to raise some central questions about the presence of the body in psychoanalytic clinical practice and contemporary culture. For such, it examines how this problem appears in the social transformations witnessed in the last decades. The biology body and the psychoanalysis body are then compared to emphasize the specificity of the latter. This problem refers to the psychoanalytic notion of the drive body, to the limits of psychic representation in psychoanalysis, and to the assertion that there is, in this field, a basic indiscernibility between the context of the drive and that of representation. In addition to these two aspects, the article highlights the importance of including the biological body as one of the dimensions of the metapsychological body in Freud.
Keywords:
body; psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic clinic; contemporaneity