The psychotherapy of Abel explores narcissistic defenses mobilized against intrusion by the drives and against objectal investments with their implications for transference and counter-transference. The silenciation of the body and the rejection of every libidinal investment of the ego is a rupture of intersubjectivity. The therapeutic setting then reactivates sensory traces, enabling an exploration of immobility as a narcissistic transformation and an attempt to rediscover the feeling that one exists.
The confinement of adolescents is here considered here as a kind of psychic immobility that keeps the symptom from forming. The transference with its binding-unbinding movement enables regression, thus transforming the primordial sadism into erogenous masochism. The pleasure principle can then become a true guardian of psychic life.
Word, Cloîtré 2023 T. 41 n°1 5 mars 2023
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