A través de la narración clínica de un seguimiento de un adolescente hospitalizado por anorexia en el marco de un psicodrama; el autor evoca varios aspectos de convocación de la violencia contra la que vehicula el síntoma anoréxico. Violencia de sumergirse en un dispositivo que obliga al paciente a renegociar una postura nueva con el objeto, y la violencia saludable del niño durante la adolescencia que sostiene la transformación del odio de la auto-agresividad a la hetero-agresividad.
El artículo describe cómo es que las tentativas de solución halladas en la cura psiquiátrica del adolescente hospitalizado en unidad de crisis ayudan a considerar la intensidad y la complejidad de los factores que participan a la violencia característica de esta clínica. El adolescente interroga aquí como en otros lugares los diferentes niveles de contención como tres muñecas rusas: la contención global, la contención local, la contención individual.
La noción de violencia en psicopatología antes que todo es un indicador de la cantidad de la excitación que está en juego. Para enfocar la violencia durante la adolescencia es necesario de considerar lo que impacta la economía interna del adolescente hasta el punto de sumergir sus recursos psíquicos. Es durante este periodo de la vida que se produce una conjunción de las fuentes de excitación y de las estimulaciones excesivas en un momento en que la relación con los padres no tiene la misma importancia y rol económico lo cual ocasiona “el traumatismo de la adolescencia”.
The 2018 publication of S. Ferrières-Pestureau’sLa violence à l’œuvre (Violence at work) provides a spot-on illustration of the way that art at different times periods has taken up what exceeds the various declensions of the human body that translates its violence. The author of this article relates major events of western history to the pictorial representations that either interpreted or provoked them, noting new perceptions of violence arising from the body.
How did Freud become Freud? Studying Freud étudiant (Freud the student), this article examines a previously unseen portrait of psychoanalysis’ founder, unearthed by meticulous biographical research that is constantly alert to the adolescent underneath the psychoanalyst. A discussion of the results of this “biographical challenge,” which traces within Freud the adolescent who came before him, raises the question: “is the adolescence ofFreud truly enough to explain adolescence forFreud?
The concept of the difficult adolescentenables us to escape from the nosographic trap of attributing the causes of violence solely to the one who commits it. Considering the question of the bond offers the possibility for a complex critical analysis of environmental factors, especially institutional ones, that contribute to violence. By discounting the relational, institutional administrations contribute to the reification of the subject, making both the public and professionals more vulnerable. As secret accomplices to violence, institutions reap what they sow.
An adolescent may transfer his own inner disorganization onto the people around him, causing misunderstandings and tensions to emerge among them. The problematic that the adolescent is unconsciously asking them to harbor may induce great interpersonal violence, with the risk of shattering institutional bonds. Several examples will shed light on the intersubjective mechanisms at work in this phenomenon.
This article focuses on violent acts in the adolescent hospitalized in psychiatry, using a clinical case to discuss, on the one hand, how through the violent act and lack of symbolization, the adolescent will come to figure a pubertary impasse, inviting a hypothesis of pubertary psychosis; and on the other hand, how the clinician can open up a therapeutic perspective when faced with ruptures of the symbolic process that drive the adolescent to enact violence.
Using a clinical situation encountered in a psychiatric service for adolescents, we will develop what we call a “borderline clinic” of adolescence, showing how this clinical work can put the institution to the test. We will attempt to show how the institution can develop its symbolic potential in order to humanize violence, by developing its capacities for listening and verbal exchange and by “hystericizing” the melancholic movements at work in this clinical field.
Transgender children and adolescents have become increasingly visible in recent years, which raises the question of the relation between trans-identity and the adolescent process. This article offers a reflection on the connection. We will also put into perspective the adolescent’s “psychic suffering” in relation to potential external violence coming from the socius, the psycho-medical approach and our own theoretical assumptions.
Adolescence, 2019, 37, 2, 371-383.
Revue semestrielle de psychanalyse, psychopathologie et sciences humaines, indexée AERES au listing PsycINFO publiée avec le concours du Centre National du Livre et de l’Université de Paris Diderot Paris 7