Reading Sophocles’ tragedies about the Labdacides family, i.e. Œdipus Rex, Œdipus in Colone, and Antigone gives us an example of the compulsion to repeat through a succession of violent actings as a consequence of traumatic transgenerational psychological violence. Along with the move towards subjectivization proper to adolescence, the legacy of psychological trauma may entail the subject, likewise Antigone, towards a heroic identification which, for the sake of the good cause, will however do nothing but feed the repetition of violence
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LAPLANCHE J. : The so-called death drive : a sexual drive
In the first part of his paper, which is a historico-critical one, the author shows the function of the invention of a death drive in the course of the evolution of the Freudian thought. The death drive corresponds to finding to a new balance within the heart of the sexual theory, whereas it is wrongly considerd as being an external addition to the latter.In the second part of the paper , which is a metapsychological one, the author locates the daeth drive within the genesis of the psychical apparatus as being one of the consequences of primary repressin as id componnt. The opposition between life sexual drives and death sexual drives corresponds to the fundamental polarity between binding and unbinding. In the third part, the author attemps to delineate a general psychological theory of hate starting from three factors : self-preservative aggressiveness or fighting spirit, sadistic violence of the death sexual drive, and the narcissistic specular enjoyment.
WAINTRATER R. : To grow up during the Shoah. A hindered adolescence
Adolescence characterizes itself as taking place through a need of analisis onto exterior reality. In such a situation of social and psychological catastrophe as the Shoah was, the destruction of any exterior reality prevents the subjcet from any anaclisis, thus leaving him at grips with an exterior reality experienced as being destructive. In the abscence of mediating structures, such as the group of peers or school, the adolescent will use mechanisms as the suppression of affects or denial whose prolonged use will forever stamp his psycholigical future.
LAVALLE G. : No time ! Notes on the times contairs
The paper describes the cure of an adolescent who had been formerly an austistic child suffering from time anxiety, using video as “ symbolizing mediation ” in a day hospital. The author streses quite a few clinical conditions enabling that very adolescent to leave behind a state of chaos and timeless psychotic excitment. The analysis of the psychological impac of video as a technical apparatus enables one to undesrtand that a cathexis in some mastery fixes a nd controls time, whereas the hallucinatory presentifies it again and defers it for a brief moment of eternity. By building some specific containing therapeutic position, the author allows the adolescent to find a new orientation for tme which he can modulate in term of drives then enabling him to create a vital minimum of time continumm. A final clinical sequence shows the passage from a state of anxiety in terms of panic urge, within the tims of separatin, towards the possibility to think with serenity that there may be a time for reunion. From all these observations, the author stresses a few stanpots for a psychoanalytic theory of the severeal times at work in thought processes.
SAVINAUD C. :The meaning of the unmendable
Criminal acting at adolescence may be acknowledged as a passing acting coming to ponctuate the necesary transformation of the body image proper wherefrom the rehandling of parental images surge. Eregeneous masochism plays foremost part aiming at substituting unatainable object representation to an already -there object, i.e. the body of the adolescent carriyng the maternal introject. The reversal of the drive over on to oneself and into its reverse offers him a means to contain excitement, a fragile self-control keeping the bond between aggressive and libido drives and transforming such a negative self-eroticism into moral masochism. The unmendable of acting operates as a starting point of subjectivization in the course of which the Subject can make his own crack ups rater than projectively granting them to the context.
JURRANVILLE A.: Chid epilepsy and trauma. A few thoughts on a new kind of moderne “ possession ”
This paper suggets a new appproach of the problem of the psychological status of some kinds of epileptic fits in chidhood and adolecence as linked with some trauma tic situations, in terms of the traditional Freudian interpretation of Dostoievski and parricide. It is in terms of an incorporative defence of a melancholic nature that one may stress the strictly psychosomatic dimension of the fit. Such a fit enables a “ suject ” to surge (in fact, quite desubjecticized) possessed by the “ obscene and creul ” superego as mentioned by Lacan. Such a fit seems to be an impossible task of mourning,so long as in its drive like violence it “ recaptures ” the trauma’s libidinal loading by repeating it on a kind of “ infernal ” way (Freud). The thera peutic perspectives underlying such a paradoxical function of trauma go further beyong the clinical and theoretical dialogue open between Freud and Firenczi
BERNARD A. :The breathing of Clement’s voice, a deaf adolescent
Clement’s case brings us to consider what voice may represent for a deaf adolescent. Idealized or disparaged, talkers’voice is caveted. Vocal link,symbolizing what unites earing adults, it is fantasized by the adolescent as if it were a love union, all the more as his voice was an object of an overinvestiment during his childhood. The irruption of the breaking of the voice can go with a refusal of the “ pubertal ”.
GIVRE P. :Diabolized and hystericized violency of rap culture
Sometimes diabolized or stigmatized for its violence, rap culture seems to stress a structural stage in course of which the behaviour and discourse of adolescents become necessarily hystericized, whereas, at the same time, they reach a more or less poetical narrative style. In that sense, the rap overflower, within its most accomplished ways, goes far beyond wthat might have been assimilated to a plain repetition of fantasies linked with the adolescent psychical scene, in such a way as it then on reaches a new inscription of its fantasy elements into a sublimatory process. Being a performative art, rap is precisely located on this very spot where some kind of giving up and transposition of an act into discourse does take place, even if it becomes thus compelled to keep up a constant ambiguity as for as the supposed giving up is concerned. In that sense, the “ prose combat ” which is part and parcel of rap enables at least to generate such a fit of hysteria liable to faresee such violent interpretation of the puberty scenes. In short, the rap stage, through a resaerch on language, on voice, on diction and on scainson of the texts, would promote a true freedom in improvisation and “ know-how to voice ” in accordance with the intrinsic rules of “ speech act ” and within the boundaries decreed by this kind of musical genre.
MARTY F. : Hight-sounding devices of violence at adolescence
Every thing that sounds both attacks and builds the adolescent. It represents one of the devices used by violence in the course of puberty : now adestructive one on the puberty side and, rather, an elaborative one when on the side of the adolescens process. Being a stamp of the adolescent space, a seat for group identifications, a containin and protecting envelope enabling the adolescent to be safely confronted to the threat of its piberty fantasies, everthing higt-sounding expresses violence at adolescence whilst shaping it at same time.
BIROT E. :Drug addiction and ego addiction to the superego agency
The problematics ofaddiction is to be understood within its relationship to an object whose status of interiority or exteriority is constantly to be redefined. The clinical case of an adolescent enables one to illustrated the ego addiction to an externalized superego agency, both omnipotent and destuctive, split from its protective centre shielding narcissism. The use of drugs thus enable s one to respond to its contradictory ideals : the acquisition of an omnipotent position and the satisfaction of the chastizing demand without having to conflictualize them pschologically.