From the mentally ill to the mentally handicapped, major displacements have been taking place in institutions and mental health clinics. In any case, however, patients remain excluded. This article discusses an institutional setting which operates from a logic of the not-all, case by case, where the universal cannot be written or represented as a fixed set of factors. Psychoanalysis applied to the mental health field is presented as a clinic of the subject, founded not on diversity but on the singularity of its relationship with desire and jouissance.
Applied Psychoanalysis; logic of the not-all; clinic of psychosis; subject supposed-to-know