This paper aims at showing that if phobia eschews the traditional pattern of transference neuroses, it however finds its elaboration framework within the dimension of narcissism and its vicissitudes. Phobia is a symptôm meaning to insist on the overflow of the ego unable to handle an impulse ebb and flow and notably in the fact that, then, the ego does not have at hand sufficient elements that would enable it to translate into a net of representations the internal feeling of impotence or annihilation. The phobia emerges where the ego collapses or least threatens to collapse. It is within this narcissistic weakness, moreover in the gap, that the phobogenous object is swallowed up in order to try and bestow a meaning onto the subject’s feeling. That object which will be held a phobic object only when it can receive a name, is also meant to give a meaning to the counter-phobic object thus compensating the failing narcissistic function of the internal object. The counter-phobic objet is an “already-there” object wherefrom the phobic elaboration will be erected within its multifarious facets.
Starting with the question, « by virtue of what does an adolescent crisis of the body exist? », this article proposes to play with the notions of space, of watching, and of the creation of a name. Internet, as mirror and space for circulating profiles and images, translates the journey of the trial to inscribe the destiny of new figures of the Name of the Father. This journey involves the risk of initiating a counter culture movement, and of the adolescent becoming the Father of the Name through the effects of his or her creation
Around 30% of the Inuits of Nunavik (Quebec) are reported to Child Protective Services. In 2010, a Residence was developed specifically for these youngsters in order to respond to their clinical and cultural needs. The objective of the present study is to explore how youths use this residential space. The results suggest that, on the one hand, the residence constitutes a “permeable institution”, allowing a certain continuity in the youngsters, despites the many ruptures they’ve experienced, while, on the other hand, the young people who are marginalized in general have a tendency to gravitate towards relationships and towards the center when they have the space in which to do this.
By exhibiting his locomotive trail, the graffiti artist invents a city for himself where his identity fantasies unfurl; thanks to these, he hopes to integrate his relation with others by making himself the object of his own practice. Then the street is no longer divided up into “ territories ”, but into moments of history, pieces of time, allowing the singularities that are being tried out to veer towards what is calling from outside. Not a production of works but of what is at work in it, the street sprayed with graffiti exudes the excesses and uncertainties of adolescence by inserting into actuality the figures of an archaistic drive that can be sublimated.
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