Interviewed by Caroline Leduc and Aurélie Pfauwadel
Our era sees the multiplication of mobile medico-social apparatuses, responding to the dissolution of the function of hospitals as asylums and to the tightening of budgets. Marianne Auffret, elected from the 14th arrondissement in Paris and in-charge of a service of mobile teams that intervene at home within the framework of the prevention of evictions, informs us about this very contemporary movement which consists in going to the encounter with an immobile real. Subjects without demand, whose pure bodily jouissance is encysted at home – jouissance of the One-all-alone – and who count for signals only to the social Other. Ms. Auffret's commitment to psychoanalysis, her attachment to that which counts rather than to what is counted, founds her desire to avoid the ruts of social control so as to, rather, try to disturb the auto-segregation by which the walls of the home incarnate a real exclusion.
Translated by Samya Seth