Narrative in analysis:

from the writing to the tale

Abstract

This article is part of a doctoral research whose premise is to point the proximity between psychoanalysis and literature departing from the idea of the unconscious as a narrative construction and therefore fictional. Thus, the hypothesis I bring here is that narration is a necessity and a right of everyone, since it is in the act of recounting, I mean, in the act of creating narratives about oneself, that one situates his/her desire and stands before his/her fantasy. Thus, it is only through an implication by the narration that one can take over his/her reccountings and his life as author. Two questions then arise: can analysis be an experience of self-rewriting? And within this whole reccounting, is it possible to think of the clinic as a place of weaving fiction?