%0 Journal Article %T Sa¨˛de, este obscuro objeto de desejo %A Lef¨¨vre %A Fernando %J Sa¨˛de e Sociedade %D 1997 %I Universidade de S?o Paulo %R 10.1590/S0104-12901997000100002 %X the present essay explores the relations between health and desire involving a given yearning named "health" and the forms that such feeling acquires in the contemporaneous context of living. it ultimately points to a radical situation in terms of health, victim of a irreversible process of expansion that eventually makes any attempt of definition not viable, leading to a total loss of meaning within a human universe tending to complete robotization. %K health-desease %K psychoanalysis %K sense %K meaning. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-12901997000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en