Subjectivation at the end of life: to be subject to death

From the concept of desubjectivation at the end -of -life, encountered in current psychoanalytic literature in the field of palliative care, our work develops subjectivation as supported by the psychoanalytic works of Solange Falade. This article argues that subjectivation accompanies death, even if it must precipitate it. To illustrate this, we use a clinical encounter. Mme O will allow us to identify subjectivation in its link to the Other and the role of the drive in the beginnings of the emergence of the subject. Through its acquaintance with jouissance, the drive will ultimately force us to question any ethics exclusively based on the good of the other by bringing everyone back to their own division. (c) 2024 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.