The obsessive neurosis: From the clinic to theory

Abstract

This article approaches obsessional neurosis from the theoretical-clinical foundations of Freud and Lacan. The psychoanalytic clinic allows us to formulate pertinent questions to the developed study, thus allowing the articulation between theory and clinical practice. This study summons the reader to the debate about the impasses of the clinic and the direction of the treatment, and reveals that the clinic of obsessional neurosis can teach much about the foundations of psychoanalysis, about the Oedipus complex, about how the subject stands before the desire and their strategies of “jouissance”.