%0 Journal Article %T Aliena£¿£¿o e separa£¿£¿o: elementos para discuss£¿o de um caso cl¨ªnico %A Pisetta %A Maria Ang¨¦lica Mello %A Besset %A Vera Lopes %J Psicologia em Estudo %D 2011 %I Universidade Estadual de Maring¨¢ %R 10.1590/S1413-73722011000200015 %X in this paper we will discuss the subject¡¯s causation from the concepts of ¡°alienation¡± and ¡°partition¡± in a lacanian perspective, drawing upon the analysis of a clinical case of the recent psychoanalytic literature. it is delimited, in the article, the theme of someone choices from the other significant determinations, considering ¡°alienation¡± as the former and the most original operation that rescues the human being, serving him as a matrix. then, we emphasize ¡°partition¡± as a logical moment in which the subject produces something particular through the significant that comes from this same other. some data of a clinical case, where the treatment direction presented, in a paradigmatic way, these two logical moments, give clinical highlight to our discussion. %K alienation %K partition %K subject. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-73722011000200015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en