Conclusion Corps empoisonnés ou empoisonnement corporel ?

Clinical psychology tackles the question of the body in its linguistic and discursive forms. Making a case for the metaphorical, this discipline suggests that the project of poisoning the body implies that it was already considered poisonous. The poisoner’s objective is to hide his or her intention as much as act on it, covering everything in enigma. Fantasies are inherent to this domain, and the author interrogates those which motivate the inventors of psychotropics, considered as new poisons.