Using the case of Jerome, we will argue that the silences of affects in the speech of patients reveals how heavily repression weighs on the work of elaborating the metamorphoses of the pubertaire and how it can thus preside over the emergence of sexually violent acts. Such acts attest to the unpredictability of the work of adolescence. With the support of educational and legal third parties, therapeutic work will then focus on recomposing affects and creating new bonds within the transference.
À partir du cas de Jérôme, nous soutenons que le silence des affects dans le discours des patients révèle le poids de la répression sur le travail d’élaboration des métamorphoses pubertaires et peut présider ainsi aux surgissements d’agirs sexuels violents. Ces agirs témoignent des aléas du travail d’adolescence. En appui sur les tiers éducatifs et judiciaires, le travail thérapeutique vise alors à la recomposition des affects et la création de nouvelles liaisons sur la scène transférentielle.
There is no evidence regarding the use of a therapeutic contract in treating severe forms of anorexia, except that it seems necessary to find some way of providing a framework for the hate we encounter. Self-hatred and hatred of the other are characteristically experienced through the body rather than expressed; the contractual format remains an appropriate response that can help overcome this ordeal.
Il n’y a pas d’évidence à soigner sous contrat les formes sévères d’anorexie, si ce n’est qu’il paraît nécessaire à la rencontre de trouver un dispositif pour encadrer la haine. La haine de soi et la haine de l’autre ont comme caractéristique de s’éprouver plus que de s’exprimer en empruntant la voie corporelle, pour laquelle le cadre contractuel constitue une réponse encore pertinente pour permettre de dépasser l’épreuve.
The author will explore the place and role of the act of sexual violence in the adolescent process. Continuing the work of A. Ciavaldini, who considers the act to be “unfinished affect”, he will discuss the way that sexual violence contributes to non-symbolic linking, to use R. Roussillon’s term. The issue of the “respondent figure”, as defined by R. Kaes, emerges in the psychotherapeutic treatment, where experiences of violence and abandonment in childhood leave traces of non-happening in the affect.
L’auteur interroge la place et la fonction de l’agir sexuel violent dans le processus adolescent. À la suite des travaux d’A. Ciavaldini où l’agir est considéré comme un « affect inachevé », il discute la contribution des violences sexuelles aux « liaisons non-symboliques » selon R. Roussillon. L’enjeu de la « figure du répondant » telle que définie par R. Kaës, émerge dans la clinique de la psychothérapie, là où vécus de violence et d’abandon dans l’enfance laissent trace de l’inadvenu de l’affect.
The oceanic feeling, as an object of controversy between S. Freud and R. Rolland, may be understood as a feeling belonging to the feeling of love experienced at adolescence. Being the expression of a fusional regression or the anticipated perception of the object love, the oceanic feeling may be one version of the resolution of the puberty conflict.
The author takes off from a prior work relating the place of remorse in the analysis of an adolescent who became a murderer in order to reread and re-interpret the place of this affect in the texts where Freud speaks of his self-analysis. He points out an implicit theory, which ties in with the explicit theory, barely sketched out, and emphasizes in particular the active and positive side of this affect most often presented as a handicap. He then shows the different faces that remorse can assume in the treatment of the adolescent, working with the principle characteristics pointed out in the preceding discussion, so as to facilitate its detection, its being taken into consideration, and its evolution. This study also seeks to help better differentiate the major affects and to show how to position ourselves when one of them appears central and dominant, whether it be shame, guilt, sadness, or remorse.
In this theoretical paper, solitude is defined as an affect which expresses the gap, or the boundary, between external objects and internal objects that is wide enough to enable a subject’s creative activity. This gap is just what is critical in adolescence. Desolation is the internal void of the psyche that finds no pointers for its creativity in its environment. Desolation seems to be the basis of depressive, hallucinatory, and paranoiac psychotic processes.
In light of what is called the clinical treatment of borderline states, the author investigates some notions inscribed within the relations between body and psyche, such as perception, the sensory, sensuality, representation, emotion, affect and auto-eroticism.
Particular importance is given to the place occupied by infantile sensuality in connection with the establishment of auto-eroticism, insofar as sensuality is most often confused with the sensory. These notions still represent a large part of the difficulties psychoanalytical research encounters today. They maintain a narrow relation with the drives’ sphere of influence, but the opposition that has often been asserted to exist between the sensorial-perceptive and the intellectual can no longer be defended.
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