RECEIVING FICTIONS FOR AFFLICTIONS: Literary Pharmacy x How Proust can change your Life.

Abstract

Prescribing fictions for afflictions: Literary Pharmacy versus How Proust Can Change Your Life. This essay addresses to the study of ties and affections in contemporary subjectivity. Our concern is, without ignoring the importance of biotechnological research, to point out that the so-called somatic culture that began to develop since the 80s, correlated to a neurochemical comprehension of subjectivity, operates reinforcing a pragmatic narcissism and moving us away from the regime that fed our imaginary and symbolic systems: literature. Taking as examples The Novel Cure and How Proust Can Change Your Life we intent to demonstrate how even when literature is present it's reading key approaches to self-help .So, we propose that the crisis of the great narratives, including literary, is the cause and effect of the crisis of affects. In the same sense, we support the need for time wasting and the practice of reverie.