Towards a Non-identitarian Psychoanalysis Culture, Corporeality, and Experience as Territory

Abstract

This article investigates the relationship between psychoanalysis, culture, corporeality, and territory through a critique of the claim to universality that underlies the modern episteme. It is grounded in the hypothesis that the notion of culture mobilized by psychoanalysis, although often presented as subversive, remains tied to a grammar that deterritorializes the subject and disregards its embodied and situated inscription. In dialogue with critical perspectives and contributions from anthropology and philosophy, the text proposes a shift from understanding culture as a normative instance to conceiving it as a dimension of experience, inseparable from corporeality. In this context, the concept of territory of experience is introduced as a theoretical-clinical operator that allows psychoanalysis to be rethought from its inscription in situated practices and shared forms of life. Such a displacement does not entail a rejection of the European tradition, but rather a problematization of its universalizing effects, opening space to conceive analytic experience as a territorialized practice.