Considerations about the experience in a street psychoanalysis clinic

Abstract

This article aims to bring considerations about the experience in a street psychoanalysis clinic, whose name is “Psychoanalysis on the Street”, which takes place in the course of urban life in the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, at Praça Saldanha Marinho. Here, the historicity of public clinics is taken up again so that we can visualize the course of other initiatives of public clinics, in public and open spaces, and thus bring them closer to our current clinical practice, raising questions, bringing together Freud’s theory and psychoanalytic practice and Lacan and his interlocutors with the event of the clinic in the street. Through this theoretical construct, it was possible to think about the different ways of doing a psychoanalytic clinic, and the importance of paying attention to its singularities, concluding that there is no psychoanalytic clinic, but a psychoanalytic clinic in its singularities.