Summary:

In this text I revisit the marks left by different encounters with the work of Fernand Deligny with the aim of thinking about possible links between the concepts and practices developed by this author and the field of human rights and care. Starting from an unexpected encounter with Deligny at the Bienal das Artes in São Paulo, I retrace the paths taken before and after this encounter: work in the field of the protection of human rights and with victims of state violence, listening to the testimonies of people tortured in places of privation of liberty, the political situation in Brazil with the arrival of the extreme right in the country, life in the Cévennes and the organisation of the archives of Deligny’s work, the writing of the thesis, clinical training and care for victims of violence, assume the function of lenses of analysis of the concepts, devices and practices proposed by the author. It is through these lenses that the text proposes a reflection on the possible meanings and the power of thinking with Deligny about this thin threshold between violence and care. The notions of human, memory, subject, institution, institution, clinic, care, cartography, exclusion, inequality and violence... make up this journey to open a collective clinical-political reflection based on Deligny and the work of all those who have accompanied him in the different endeavours that make up his history.

Key words: Fernand Deligny | Human Rights | Violence | Subject | Human | Welfare practices