Désir et souffrance dans la relation de soin

Reflections on care relationship often consider it on an asexual and ageless mode. However, except to reify the technoscientific modeling of the care relationship, these concepts are important, even in a hypertechnical context, as seen in resuscitation medicine. The project of this article is to show how the consideration of the imaginary of sex and death in care does not depreciate the value of medical rationality, but operates its conversion in the care relationship. It determines this 'point of conversion' where the caring relationship takes over the technoscientific dominance of the biomedical field. In order to determine how this conversion of 'fact' of the disease towards the event that is the sick man is possible, we will focus on the ambiguity of these imaginary sex and death. They can be played on three levels. The generalizing stereotype that is a fall-back point in respect of medical rationality. The modeling of the medical interactions, which is a point of conflict for a medical rationality that can drift rationalism. The creation of a symbolic world in which to learn how to understand one another in the enigma of the man wishing and suffering. This latter is the core point of conversion that we seek.