ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the work of the clinic is read through the influence of anthropology, specifically kinship theory as derived from Lévi-Strauss and reinterpreted by Bateson, Viveiros de Castro, Strathern, Deleuze and Guattari. The family is portrayed not as a unit of different positions, but as an assemblage with reciprocal, asymmetrical and partial connections in a multiplicity in which processes of subjectivation and events are entangled. The chapter draws inspiration from social anthropology and the Ontological Turn to provide reflections on taboo and the pain of loss. The thought from the outside becomes the discourse of what cannot be said, at the same time deriving from other cultural and social contexts.
