Clinic of Singularity and Difference
Singularity is not synonymous with individualism.
It is the concrete form that each existence takes within its own bonds, conflicts, genealogies, and affiliations. A clinical practice attentive to singularity recognizes that neutral biographies do not exist: what exists are situated stories that speak the languages of the contexts that traverse them.
A clinical practice of difference therefore requires:
• listening to the details — the subtle particularities that orient meaning;
• recognizing that every symptom speaks the language of the context in which it is born;
• avoiding totalizing readings that reduce variations to deviations from the norm;
• welcoming complexity without neutralizing or aestheticizing it.
Therapies that ignore singularity generate disorientation and suffering.
Those that listen to it create possibilities for change.
Our educational task is to accompany future therapists in becoming readers of contexts, capable of interpreting symptoms as embodied narratives rather than objects to be classified. In this way, clinical practice becomes an ethical encounter rather than a technical application: a space in which meanings are co-produced, hypotheses are transformed, and differences become resources for new forms of existence.
