Affect and body illness: psychoanalytical considerations. Topic of interest for the clinic, the research of somatic psychopathologies requires metapsychological reelaborations that consider the place of the Body and the Affect. With the emphasis on the repression, the problematic of the Affect would have stayed in the background, causing a compromising gap on the course of the clinical acts. Retrieving Freudian elaborations on the Affect, especially its suppression, can open space for the listening to the pain of sick bodies. In this essay, we have first investigated the Freudian metapsychology of the Affect for, then, propose elaborations about the destinies of the Body in psychosomatic formations
Body; affect; psychoanalysis; psychic suffering; psychosomatic