Abstract
This research proposes to investigate the concept of the body according to the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and its possible interfaces with the clinic, using as intercessors some of his dialogues with Nietzsche and Espinosa. For this, we sought the definitions of body for Nietzsche and Espinosa. For the first, the body is a relation of forces, and for the second, it is characterized by its power of affection. Based on Deleuze’s reading of them, corporality can be understood as processuality, permeated by the intensive states that pass through bodies. Deleuze’s theoretical encounters make the clinic think about how the body can be an instrument of self-invention, as this is where the processes of subjectivity occur. Experimentation, therefore, constitutes an ethical compromise of a clinic that is invented at each meeting. Therefore, the potency to cast the bodies for the exercise of creation is problematized.
Keywords:
body; clinic; affections; production of subjectivity