The analytical situation and setting encourage the return of confusion, and the analyst has access to the subject’s private world. With sexual abuse, the Fantasy scene is crushed by that of the act. Confusion is fed by denial on the part of the entourage and by a disavowal of the traumatic experience. Transference helps one gain access to a time when the thread of fantasy can be picked up again, thanks to the psychotherapist’s affection. It is important that the disavowal not recur during the session.
Archives de catégorie : ENG – L’abus – 2025 T. 43 n°2
Laurie Kirazian, Simruy Ikiz-Collino: broken silences: the journey of subjectivation after abuse
This article presents the treatment of an adolescent boy grappling with the repercussions of a sexual assault he sufferedat a time when he was placed in care. The authors show the impact of traumas on the process of subjectivation, while emphasizing the importance of acknowledging the trauma, in order to enable gradual access to subjectivation.
Adolescence, 2025, 43, 2, 247-259.
Mélanie Fakheur: hearing the horror
Adolescents experience the horror of being sexually exploited. And these are the images that appear in treatment and call out to psychoanalysts at the very foundations of their theory. They cry out to express the horror of the experience, taking the place of the fantasy scene. Educative and healthcare institutions resist receiving and hearing them. What is the ethical responsibility of psychoanalysts in this listening?
Adolescence, 2025, 43, 2, 233-245.
Sarah Michot, Catherine Matha: the cry of silences: with covered words mots
This article will attempt to approach the issue of silences and their role in abuse, especially incest. It suggests that we examine the way that these are present in the transference relationship as the locus of an enactment of trauma and as an attempt to subjectivate the unsayable. These considerations are supported by an account of the early months of a psychotherapeutic treatment with an older adolescent girl, whose silences didn’t fail to make noise.
Adolescence, 2025, 43, 2, 223-232.
Alexandra Buresi-Garson, Juliette Niderman-Nguyen, Stéphanie Pechikoff: “you’re forcing!”
In adolescent parlance, “You’re forcing!” is used when someone is being insistent and not taking into account the desire of the other person. The use of this expression reflects current debate about consent and the logics of domination. Starting with a consideration of the role of language in the constitution of the subject, we will integrate our theoretical references in order to explore the risks of abuse in the family and in the treatment setting. We will investigate the ethics of analysis in a society undergoing a transformation embodied by adolescent modernity.
Adolescence, 2025, 43, 2, 209-221.
Nicolas Rabain, Thomas Lepoutre: thé era of abuse
The authors suggest that the notion of abuse be divided into three different modes frequently encountered in treatment: abusing, being abused, and abusing oneself. What makes adolescents abuse? Whom do they inevitably abuse? And when the scenario is turned back against themselves, by what or by whom are they now being abused? This article invites analysts to think about their own potential for abuse, enacted in the violence of interpretation.
Adolescence, 2025, 43, 2, 201-208.