ABSTRACT
The birth of Greek medicine gave us two models for this problem. The first, represented by Empedocles, seems not to renounce the excellence of the practical dimension and demands that excellence hold a specific relationship with the truth and with the real, so that treatment becomes possible. The second, represented by Hippocrates, stresses the dimension of care, referring the origin of the power of healing to a system of transmission of shared knowledge based on tradition and oath. Whether through the narrative structure of the disorder, through the type of cultural formation that is seen in tragedy, or through the participation of the mythical in the conception of healing, psychoanalysis is a treatment that operates on narratives and with narratives. The most impressive form of this montage, which ranges from healing to its incorporation by power, is expressed in the thaumaturgic healing carried out during the rise of absolutism.
