In this interview, responding to questions asked by François Richard, André Green revisits his classic works on temporality (La diachronie en psychanalyse, Le temps éclaté). He places them within the intellectual and psychoanalytical context of the period, clarifying his positions on the relations between structure and development, and his conception of the Ego-Subject. This leads him to go further into his conceptions of the relations between borderline cases and psychosis, starting with Freud’s propositions about melancholy, and by the same token, to discuss the technique and the ethics of clinical treatments.
The question of relations between psychoanalysis and temporality makes adolescence exemplary of a psychotic potential whose specificity André Green seeks to theorize, taking into account its social and cultural dimension.
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Catherine Chabert : The Past : A Passive Form ?
Using clinical fragments and meta-psychological reflections, the author advances some working hypotheses which tend to show how, in adolescence, compulsive symptomatologies aim to stop time by means of a major counter-investment of passivity. By actively refusing the effects of absence and of loss on the one hand, and those of the castration inherent to indentificatory processes on the other hand, these adolescents attempt to annul the passage of time and the changes it bears witness to.
François Richard : Temporality, Psychosis, and Melancholy at Adolescence
In this article, the author shows how the concept of subjectivation grew out of clinical work on psychotic states in adolescence. These are related to a melancholic core that is sometimes difficult to discern beneath the drive conflicts of puberty. Using a clinical case of adolescent-onset psychosis, the problem of the fundamental relation between psychosis, temporality and melancholy is restated in a way that can account for “ borderline ”-looking symptomotologies, within a post-Freudian theoretical framework and with reference to certain contributions of Green and Racamier.
Jacques Hochmann : Longing for the Ephemeral
A variation on Freud’s article The Feeling of the Ephemeral, this work stresses the importance of the affect of nostalgia in the constitution of mental activity. Identifying with the nostalgic pleasure of his mother dreaming, the child introjects a pleasure in evoking and narrating his experience, which is indispensable for investing the functioning of his psyche and the mourning-work that is its correlate.
Dominique Agostini : Melanie Klein, Analyst of Adolescents: III. The Case of “Willy”
Based on the case of “Felix,” which led to the concepts of internal objects and unconscious fantasies, and the case of “Ilse,” in which the focus was on the Kleinian concepts of feminine sexual identity, the author explores material from the analysis of “Willy” (aged fourteen). In this analysis, Klein illustrates and conceptualizes — as in the cases of Felix and Ilse — that revisiting the early Oedipal phase during adolescence is the condition <i>sine qua non</i> for the joint integrative development of psychic bisexuality and “psychic puberty.” Klein relates this work to the concepts of the feminine phase common to both sexes, of combining parents, and of male homosexuality.
Jean-Yves le Fourn : Arthur Rimbaud, or the Solitude of an Absent Father
The life of Arthur Rimbaud is mapped by his poetry and correspondence, but also his solitary wanderings and disorderly conduct and behavior in search of an ever-absent and missed Father.
Sophie Turcat : The Bad Upbringing of the Father
Following the extended analysis carried out previously in Talk to her, Pedro Almodovar has furthered the expression of his fraternal fantasies, offering for the first time in The bad education some concrete and autobiographical elements of their origins. He finally gives a powerful place to the male phallic characters and manages to eliminate the female ones almost completely.
Guy Scharmann : “Scarred by the Couch: An Essay on Plural Symbolizations”
This article gives a glimpse of Jean-José Baranès’ book Les balafrés du divan. Essai sur les symbolisations plurielles (“ Scarred by the couch. An essay on plural symbolizations ” Paris : Dunod, 2003), whose main theme is a clinical and theoretical reflection on the work of primary and secondary symbolization carried out in current indications of psychoanalysis.
Françoise Fericelli-Broun : Adolescence and Suicide: Deontological and Ethical Issues
In this article, the author proposes to define and distinguish the notions of morals, of deontology and of ethics as applied to the medical field. Deontology and ethics are then investigated within the framework of the psychiatric treatment of suicidal adolescents. This type of therapeutic situation repeatedly and violently confronts the caregivers with deontological and ethical questions.
A clinical vignette allows us to show some modes of ethical questioning, a questioning which is indispensable to the elaboration of a care-giving action.
Michel Delage : Solitude and the Failure to Attain Autonomy : The Place of a Family-Based Approach to Therapy
On the way to becoming autonomous, the adolescent sometimes meets with solitude. Some pathological conduct, such as running away or “ false-starts ”, seem to bear witness to this, being both an expression of the malaise the adolescent feels, and an appeal to the other. As a relations theory, the theory of attachment offers a model for understanding these situations where coherence must be centred on the interpersonal and on the possibility of family therapy interventions. In this direction the two concepts of “ resonance ” and of “ floating object ” hold much interest.