Abstract

Recent discussions about medical discourse seek to demonstrate the apparent and progressive oblivion of the subject as well as the notion of subjectivity in the development of modern medicine - in its foundations in clinical practice and basic theoretical framework. As a result, they show that medicine has evolved in the understanding of the disease, while still keeping the experience of suffering as a blind spot. The response is to carry out countless attempts to restore subjectivity in the therapeutic process and medical discourse, aiming at an integral and humanized care in contrast to what we might call an exteriority discourse. Having as reference the analytical psychology of Jung and based on observations made in the public health service, we analyze how the experience of suffering is present in clinical practice and its consequences as expression of subjectivity to theoretical and practical fields.