The author offers a theoretical and clinical reflection about primal violence and it’s repercussions for the psychic constitution of the subject. A clinical case will enable us to explore the terror experienced in the primary relation and the consequences of this when drive issues play out with a substitute object. For the analyst, it is a matter of encouraging the emergence of a capacity for symbolic representation, while the violence of the trauma appears as the negative of this capacity.
Genitalization is the last step of sexual development described by Freud. Its occurrence at puberty gives sexual difference its definitive form. Simultaneously, it affects the preceding phases retroactively to transform them. The limits between different steps appear less in their chronological sequence than as a work of reformulating after the fact, which suggests a re-evaluation of the theory, in particular of the phallic-genital articulation. Some hypotheses are formulated regarding the originary and the primitive, of the castration complex and the negative at puberty.
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