Naked life encounters in the gardens of capital. An investigation into the consumption of treatments

Abstract

This article discusses contemporary life medicalization, bringing into focus health care actions that question the growing process of medicalization of existence and naturalization of therapies, treatments and care consumption. This process updates one of the aspects of the processes of expansion and accumulation of contemporary capitalist functioning in their microphysical strategies of life control and modulation manifested in care practices. We analyze this focus on the emergency and interweaving of two force vectors, medicine and psychoanalysis, which, in our understanding, have prevailed and pervaded health care practices in both biological and psychic aspects. Based on such reflections, we searched to create creepages in clinical practices aiming at self care and world-building.