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.
Archives par mot-clé : Subjectivation
ARENES JACQUES : THE CREATION OF RITES DE SUBJECTIVATION IN ADOLESCENCE
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
Gianluigi Monniello : destinies of violence in an outpatient hospital
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.
Christian Mille : relevance of separation work in adolescence ?
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 ?
Viviane Dubol : prostitution, between bodily orifices and words, an experience of subjectivation ?
This article attempts a clinical reflection about the act of prostitution and the psychical stakes it puts into play. A review of the history of research hypotheses and important moments allows us to stress to what extent knowledge of the anamnesis and traumas is insufficient for understanding the destiny of prostitution. Listening to clinical cases led me to take into account the force of words that have the value of an injunction, such as the “ You’re just a prostitute ” or the “ I’m a prostitute ” constructed by the subject. It is within this context of sensitivity to words that the function of the “ fourth character ” was deployed, as a figure of the social female Other to whom the act of prostitution is addressed and what is at stake in it for the subject. In fact, and this is our working hypothesis, the erotology of some of the prostitute’s tricks would contribute to the construction of oneself through the auto-erotic experiences involving the bodily orifices and what psychoanalysis calls the little a object. What we describe of the “ symbolic trick ” suggests that love is not absent from such a process of subjectivation.
Bernard Penot : Psychoanalytical Teamwork : Return to an Early Point in the Subjectivizing Process
Psychoanalytical teamwork is recommended in the treatment of the particular form of transference that routinely occurs in the institutional treatment of young patients suffering from psychotic disorders or from behavioral pathology (borderline cases). The degree of alienation is such that repetition will tend to be induced in the other – the therapist, in this case – due to the absence of constituted fantasy in certain sectors of the patient’s psyche. It is as if the restitution (Freud, 1937) and subjective appropriation of these elements by the patient necessitated a detour through the psychical space of the caregivers (which is very trying for them), obliging them first of all to elaborate these subjective elements among themselves.
Vincent Cornalba : The Moment and Désirance
The register of the moment directly poses the question of désirance and its influence in the process of subjectivation. Starting with the problem of the encounter in the libertine, the author offers an exposé of relational issues at the onset of the genital phase. The register of consensual defeat instigates the creation of an amorous, masochistic self on which the subjectal evolution will in part depend. The moment – through the effect of divestment it introduces into the encounter, but also through the effect of putting into perspective it gives rise to – gives potential to this operation which determines the genital subject.
Evelyne Gosse-Oudard : Leaving Adolescence, Ending Analysis
If the model of the infantile organization of the psychical economy is the paradigm for analytical treatment, might not the model of the end-of-adolescence process be the paradigm for the “ ending ” of the analysis ? The notion of drive for control, a constituent of the psychical apparatus, once it is differentiated from the relation of control, especially its mortifying, negative aspects, will be the basis for an exploration of the processes involved in the establishment of the subject’s narcissistic foundations and, by permitting him to free himself from an alienating relationship with the primordial object, a pre-condition for his subjectivation.
Raymond Cahn : subjectality and subjectivation
Starting with Freud’s originary distinction between subject of the ego and object of the ego, and thus between subjectal and objectal poles, subjectality is conceived of as the process that enables the emergence of a creative, autonomous self, shedding light, through their disturbances, on some essential aspects of the setting and of the counter-transference which determine the possibility or impossibility of genuine psychoanalytical work.
François Richard : Temporality, Psychosis, and Melancholy at Adolescence
In this article, the author shows how the concept of subjectivation grew out of clinical work on psychotic states in adolescence. These are related to a melancholic core that is sometimes difficult to discern beneath the drive conflicts of puberty. Using a clinical case of adolescent-onset psychosis, the problem of the fundamental relation between psychosis, temporality and melancholy is restated in a way that can account for “ borderline ”-looking symptomotologies, within a post-Freudian theoretical framework and with reference to certain contributions of Green and Racamier.