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 par mot-clé : Acknowledgement
EIGUER ALBERTO : TRANSMISSION OF RESPONSIBILITY
»This article presents some recent developments in the theory of transmission. The author recalls the earliest contributions to this theory ; traumas endured by ancestors may be the source of the trouble, especially if they were experienced as shameful by the descendants and kept secret. But transmission has a structuring character for everyone; it is the basis for the establishment of the law, for the set-up of the family and for the attachment to ideals. Founding an essential axis for ethics, the notion of responsibility is also inscribed in a process of transmission. The author suggests that the parents’ gift to and the attitude toward their child plays a role in this, by giving impetus to acknowledgement in the child, in both senses of the word: that of gratitude and that of identifying the other as different.»