At a time of technological changes, the contemporary adolescent fashions new modes of intersubjective organization (sms, chat, mail, networks, etc.) by producing multiple figures of his new reference points. The author invites the reader to follow the chaotic movement of this evolution, piecemeal, as suggested by this fragmentary mode that runs counter to the abecedary.
Adolescence, T. 31 n°1, pp. 235-238.
Using the individual psychotherapeutic treatment of a thirteen year-old patient, Clementine<i></i>, we will explore the possible repercussions of a sisterly bond that is too strong, and how it may sometimes prove a hindrance to the separation/individuation process. Carried to an extreme in the fantasy of twinship, it leads to an Ego with vague contours, and the pursuit of a relation that may be harmful to a subject with fragile narcissism. There is lack of differentiation between bodies and psyches. Anorexia will burst this specular bubble when only one of the subjects reaches physiological puberty. Clinical interviews in the space for physical and psychic separation the hospital setting provides shed light on the issues and the limits of the establishment of subjectivation work.
Adolescence, T. 31 n°1, pp. 27-36.
The image of a chain of paper dolls comes to mind to help the clinical psychologist working in a juvenile detention center to envision adolescents caught in a chain marked by the fraternal, the horizontal, and the norm. The author presents his practice in the prison itself: the displacement of the psychologist towards the adolescent in his incarcerated condition, with the interposition of a clinical setting. This can open the way for the adolescent towards a work of psychical differentiation and subjectivation. A clinical illustration bears witness to an adolescent’s journey in the encounter with the psychologist, from the « we » to the « I », with a chessboard turning out to be an important object in this case.
Adolescence, 2014, 32, 1, 127-138.
The description of a therapy group using the mediating forms of dance and writing in a day-hospital shows how unsymbolized memory traces emerge and are transformed through group associations, both corporal and verbal. Thus new representations of the body and its origins – vectors of subjectivation – are created.
Adolescence, 2014, 32, 2, 389-400.
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.
Adolescence, 2014, 32, 2, 363-376.
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.
Adolescence, 2014, 32, 2, 389-400.
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.
Adolescence, 2014, 32, 2, 363-376.
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