This paper proposes to think thepsychoanalytical clinic of aging as moved by challenges brought about by theconsiderable increase in the number of elderly people nowadays. By questioningthe role of psychoanalysis in culture and supported by clinic experience, wethink about the psychoanalytical clinic of aging while includinginterdisciplinary contributions and interventions. This approach defendssublimation as a means of sustaining the wish and, above all, as a means oftransformation provided by social bonds, aiming to put the subject as theleader of his own history and assuming that investment is what upholdsexistence. There is no age for desire. Through this principle, one must “bet onlife” even when the body becomes “an arena for diseases”, always pointingtowards death. Thus, psychoanalysis summons “the subject” to the hearing andremembering which enable his/her own histories and reconcile him/her with thelegitimacy of his/her own wish.
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