Abstract

Foucault takes up the notion of care of oneself from the Greek world, showing that amidst the tendency to consider the epiméleia heautoû from the perspective of the gnôthi seautón, little by little a forgetting of the sense of caring for oneself. Kierkegaard also beckons to forgetfulness of care of oneself operated by the philosophy and theology of his time, in a discourse entitled For self-examination, although it refers to care through expressions such as self-examination or judge for yourself. The aim of this work is to consider a proposal of psychological clinic in dialogue with the notion of self-care, pointed out by Foucault and, more specifically, by Kierkegaard. The text concludes by showing that this clinic constitutes a privileged listening that opens a field where everything is possible, including the possibility of transformation.