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The human body has several methods to release the tension generated by temporary frustration. Used regularly as a response, such methods will become the only way out of a tense situation. Some persons experience an altered consciousness and perception of one's body, rendering inter-subjectivity and self-reflection impossible. We can then ask ourselves how the symbolic dimension can be accessed to enable psychical elaboration. According to the Lacanian theory, psychoanalytic therapy will have to replace imaginary self-knowledge by a symbolic self-knowledge, for imaginary knowledge hinders the subject's access to symbolic knowledge. In the analytic therapy of the individuals suffering from somatic symptom disorder, the solution refers especially to the behavioural component, while the representations, even if present, concern the body and the way it works in a more or less illusive manner. As, by means of interpretation, the subject accesses their emotions and the relational experience thus expressed, the relational somatic functioning will be replaced by the psychic functioning and representations will lose their corporeal content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Artistic creation, one of the most meaningful expressions of the sublimation process, was associated by Freud to the sublime, elevation and splendor. Creating, the artist moves away from the instinctual and succeeds to escape from his own sexual proclivities, discharging them through socially acceptable channels. In this perspective we will analyze the work of Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu (1933- 1988) especially the cycle of 11 elegies, considered the height of his creative journey. His lyrics are imbued with the feminine, more of a female body, using concepts such as anatomical poetic concepts, anatomy being used both as a vocabulary like syntax. Thus, the woman appears in several hypostases, the pure woman, the woman muse, seductive women and especially women mother. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The archaic processes involve impregnation of body experiences and the reactivation of early traumas will turn on somatic and behavioral processes bypassing the process of mentalization. The red thread of the mechanism of addictive behavior, whether one speaks of neo-needs, incorporation, transitional objects, will be a flaw in the processes that manage the discharged mental stress. Signifiers body, represent the place of registration of sensations that lie beyond the emotions and words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Archaic functioning refers to psychic processes preceding primary processes specific to the developmental period in which there is no separation between body and psyche. This type of functioning is found through regressive dynamics in the psychoanalytic cure of the subject who suffers from addictive or psychosomatic pathology. The way in which the analyst looks or listens will be confronted with somatic or behavioural forms of expression, including the severe activation of basic needs that bring to discussion the classic psychoanalytic frame and the psychoanalyst's neutrality as it requires an active response. This way a bodily impregnation of the affects is revealed which provides a new connotation to the concept of frame. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The somatic continent is an unknown land for psychoanalysis and, for this reason, it is avoided. The patient's expression on this register is frequently ignored by the therapist, even if it refers to the deeper and structuralized levels of his personality. Considering the psychogenesis of the addictive behaviors, the pain subjected of the body symptoms finds his origin into the earliest stages of the psychic development, stages when the words were not yet skills of the psychic elaboration. The anxiety in front of the loss of the addictive or somatic symptoms is more intense because the capacity of psychic elaboration of the Ego risks to be overcome by the psychic movements. Through the signifiers that operate in the analytic space, except thing-representation and word-representation, it is necessary to consider also the affect, the body impression and the act. In the case of an addictive patient, the representation process didn't succeed in gaining the word-representation. Thus, he's utilizing the specific manners of representation and he tries to integrate them in the analytic space. In the transference, the analyst is challenged to recognize them, and he must try to help the patient to verbalize them. The addictive solution is a necessity of a psyché with the capacity of representations in deficit to the extent it finds in itself a response to his needs. The body functions are attributed a symbolic value, the erogenous functions and zones are invested so as to replace the the function of elaboration belonging to the thinking process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]