ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic research on psychosomatic phenomena. Lacan approached the psychosomatic phenomena using the concept of the frozen signifier. Lacanian authors have used this concept in a variety of ways. Yet differences do exist among Lacanian writers themselves, mainly in what concerns the possibility of a concrete determination of such frozen signifiers (holophrasis), which could be spotted by the therapist. According to some of these authors, emphasizing such signifiers could lead the psychosomatic phenomena to an end. Other Lacanian writers question the clinical value of this type of intervention. The author also questions the kinship between the psychosomatic phenomena and other clinical phenomena such as hallucination, emotion, mood and passing in the action.
Keywords:
Act; affect; embarrassment; holophrasis; psychosomatic