By means of a case study, the authors demonstrate the importance of a psycho-phenomenological therapeutic setting, which brings together a phenomenological component, where work that enacts primal processes in and through movement, and a psychoanalytical component where primary and secondary processes can be endowed with representation. The proposed psychotherapy enables the adolescent, who is locked into passages to the act, to metabolize his aggressiveness in a new way.
La description d’un groupe thérapeutique à médiation danse et écriture, en hôpital de jour, montre comment des traces mnésiques non symbolisées émergent et se transforment à travers l’associativité groupale, corporelle et verbale. Sont ainsi créées de nouvelles représentations du corps et des origines, vectrices de subjectivation.
À partir d’une étude de cas, les auteurs montrent la valeur opératoire d’un dispositif thérapeutique psychophénoménologique articulant une instance phénoménologique, où s’élabore un travail enactif du processus originaire par et dans le mouvement, et une instance psychanalytique où s’effectue la mise en représentation des processus primaire et secondaire. Cette proposition psychothérapique permet à l’adolescent, enfermé dans des passages à l’acte, une métabolisation originale de son agressivité.
Telemachus is the very example of a successfully achieved adolescence and entry into the adult world. Yet it is a deconstructed pattern, described each in its own way by Fenelon and Aragon, letting appear a drive violence whose mental functioning feeds itself whereas at the same time it strives, now with a variable success, at taming, thus revealing the richness and the depth of that mythical figure
Criminal acting at adolescence may be acknowledged as a passing acting coming to ponctuate the necesary transformation of the body image proper wherefrom the rehandling of parental images surge. Eregeneous masochism plays foremost part aiming at substituting unatainable object representation to an already -there object, i.e. the body of the adolescent carriyng the maternal introject. The reversal of the drive over on to oneself and into its reverse offers him a means to contain excitement, a fragile self-control keeping the bond between aggressive and libido drives and transforming such a negative self-eroticism into moral masochism. The unmendable of acting operates as a starting point of subjectivization in the course of which the Subject can make his own crack ups rater than projectively granting them to the context.
In this article new forms of contradiction-conflict resulting from changes in the perception of limits that psychoanalysts encounter in their practice today are conceived from the perspective of the notions of work of the negative and of subjectivation
The term political has been used for a long time for very different approaches to the issue of the other in adolescence : it is distinguished as the “ instituted other ” (family, teacher, companion) by its societal or institutional functions. From this confrontation, there emerges both the idea of opposition which is hard to oppose, and of anaclitic relation. It as if the function of the political helped to localize, to situate in the social space-time, desire as it presides over adolescent subjectivation. The political would be a statutory attribute of the parental subject in the transference within adolescence’s tertiary function. The latter defined, in Le pubertaire (Gutton, 1991) would be a singular message from the social situation in which the adolescent necessarily finds himself, and wishes once again to evolve.
Subjectivation rites in adolescence are now taking on an unprecedented configuration, in a culture where initiation, religious in particular, is less oriented towards the transmission of content and aims at self-creation and the quest for meaning. This article proposes to analyze contemporary religious, or spiritual, rites of subjectivation in adolescnce which are more or less linked to communal space. These subjectivation rites constitute the general figure of self-creation rites, and of « self-uplift » at this age. This type of rite is deployed with a transitionality which is also an appeal to the other. The example of the spiritual journey of Etty Hilsheim, a young Jewish woman who died in Auschwitz in 1943 and whose journal has had a huge readership, illustrates this theme of rites of self-creation, especially through writing, within a context of the weakness of the rite’s object of reference, a context wherein the appeal to otherness remains nevertheless in operation
In an outpatient hospital, the destinies of violence and its different manifestations depend on the support offered by the therapist, the group of caregivers and the containing institutional setting, which can provide models for symbolization.
The detailed description of the treatment of Ennio, a violent adolescent, give an illustration of the primary therapeutic aim, which is the interiorization of the containing function of the outpatient hospital, considered as a transferential community where tranferences are deployed in an inter-subjective dimension.
Peter Blos has argued for the idea of a second process of separation-individuation in adolescence, conceived as an obligatory revival of psychical differentiation put in to difficulty by the upheavals of puberty. However, the fruitfulness of this theory deserves to be investigated in light of the requirements of Freudian metapsychology. It is also important to take into account the role reserved for the object itself, object whose responses are not without consequence for the development of the undefined process of subjective appropriation. Can we finally verify the value of this hypothesis in the comprehension of certain psychopathological manifestations in adolescence which require specific rearrangements in the therapeutic relationship ?
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