The training of the analyst

the clinic of the feminine, violence, and the social bond

Abstract

This article proposes that the clinic of the feminine requires that the training of the analyst include a reading of violence as a social grammar of patriarchal society, since there can be no analytic work with women without considering the discursive structure that traverses their bodies, their bonds, and their modes of jouissance. It argues that violence against women cannot be understood merely as an individual or contingent event, but rather as a structural effect of the social bond organized by capitalist discourse, whose logic of capturing jouissance operates in a particularly intense way on the female body. The thesis is developed through three main axes: the Lacanian formalization of capitalist discourse, the theory of sexuation and the logic of the not-all, and the historical genealogy of the expropriation of the female body proposed by Silvia Federici in Caliban and the Witch. From this articulation, the article derives consequences for the training of the analyst, understood not merely as technical transmission or individual ethics, but as the construction of a position capable of operating in the social bond through a reading of violence as a grammar of jouissance, shaping the modes of subjectivation that traverse the feminine in contemporary society.