This theoretical-clinical essay discusses the notion of imaginarization, mentioned by Lacan in only three passages of his oeuvre, to understand certain contemporary clinical manifestations and segregation processes. It hypothesizes that imaginarization is at the core of an activity that can lead the subject to a fixed and specific mode of jouissance. The main question is the type of relationship with object a and what can be derived from this process regarding the economy of jouissance. Contemporary discourse is considered, emphasizing the modes of jouissance that can emerge from this process. In dealing with contemporary symptomatic manifestations in the clinic, the texts point to derivations from the singular (a quintessential register of the psychoanalytic clinic) to the particular, in the subject’s relations with social discourse.
Key words:
Imaginarization; jouissance; psychoanalytic clinic; capitalist discourse
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