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ENG - Mesure et démesure - 2011 T. 29 n°2

Stephan Wenger : paranoia and institutional psychotherapy

Andreas is an adolescent who has broken with school. Welded to his mother with whom he forms a bubble with paranoid features, he has very few relationships based on otherness. His time in the Out-Patient Therapeutic Center, an almost unique psychotherapeutic perspective to our mind, will help to recreate thought about himself and develop his abilities to think about his own and others’ thoughts. Thus the institution offers an opportunity to triangulate Andreas’ psychical functioning, as it can for many patients in whom the « third party » is lacking as a psychical function, or is fragile to a harmful degree, and who are inscribed in perpetual movements of « leaving-being invaded) with the object.

Adolescence, 2011 T. 29 n°2, pp. 355-383.

ENG - Mesure et démesure - 2011 T. 29 n°2

Jacques Laget : cuts, painting with the blood, glance of the therapist

During a session of psychotherapy, Benoît, 15 year-old, asks if he can make a painting of his blood – painting which he realizes then, at home, and describes in the following session : the eyes of Horus, which he found on internet. He presents a severe depression and projects of suicide, he cuts himself, the narcissistic fragility is massive and the identical problem in the foreground. Benoît claims his depression, says his fascination for its scars, he assimilates his need to see pouring his blood as a dependence with a drug. He wants to cut himself, he needs it, he feels existing. The blood relationships unite him strictly to her twin sister. He says that he does not suffer when he cuts himself, He undergoes in adversity, he feels and paradoxically hardens… The pain strengthens him and there even strengthens the limits of the ego. He so treats his excess big sensibility, signs for him of weakness and passivity which we set against the violence, the power and the strength which he feels in his auto-aggressive behavior.

Glances : his on his blood and painting. The place of the glance, the glances, the eyes of Horus, internal glance of Benoît on his blood which pours, his scars, trying to appropriate a body and a psyche which change and threaten it. Glance of his parents who suffer, he knows that, bewildered, they panic at the beginning, but their glances evolve. Glance of the therapist on his painting, as « adolescent » creation, and resumption of the myth in the therapy. The therapist, the psychotherapy of the attacks of the body, restore a relationship associating creation and representation, opening in the sense.

Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°2, pp. 355-383.

ENG - Mesure et démesure - 2011 T. 29 n°2

David Le Breton : on school massacres carried out by adolescents

Young school shooters are far from fitting a common psychological style: some are described as sociable, others as loners. Some live in intact families, others in divorced or separated families. A set of sociological features unites them : the fulfillment of a virility rite when nothing else gives them a sense of self-worth, the impossibility of identifying with others, the wild hatred which in them takes the place of membership the world.

Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°2, pp. 325-337.

ENG - Mesure et démesure - 2011 T. 29 n°2

Ségolène Payan : the migratory rite, a hindrance of the process of subjectivation ?

In the traditional societies of western Africa, every year nusmerous teenagers are appointed, ritually, by them peers to be applicants for immigration. The fulfillment of the « mission » which is assigned to them can succeed only in the price of a subjective appropriation of their fate.

Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°2, pp. 317-324.

ENG - Mesure et démesure - 2011 T. 29 n°2

Hélène Romano : dangerous « je » (games/I) and psychical processes at work in dangerous practices

In the daily life of children and adolescents, particular conducts may be noted : asphyxiation « games », aggression « games » and death « games ». In light of my regular experience with young people involved in these kinds of conducts, I propose some ideas about the processes at work. In the first part I will present these different « games » and the way they are frequently confused with other kinds of activity ; then I will describe the effect on thought processes and the object relation they imply.

Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°2, pp. 305-315.

ENG - Mesure et démesure - 2011 T. 29 n°2

Anne Winter, Loïck M. Villerbu : delinquency in adolescence: another paradigm of link ?

Regularly, the literature concerned with delinquency during adolescence convenes the failure of the paternal authority as explication of transgressions of the social link. These are the hangovers of a theoretical tradition which has shown many times the effects of oedipal triangulation, paradigmatic of emotional and social relationships. Though, a part of clinic is now showing us the importance of the dynamics of exchange subjected to an order of parity, we can not overlook. Underlain by narcissism, it takes precedence over genealogy and gives to distances and proximities an assured function ; the one which will guarantee adolescent reciprocity and integrity, in fouding otherwise his values.

Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°1, pp. 293-304.

ENG - Mesure et démesure - 2011 T. 29 n°2

Gérard Bonnet : « vengeance as a means of survival » or life violence, death violence

Violence is one of the most feared forms of human violence and also offers privileged ground for studying this violence in itself. For psychoanalysis, perversion is the psychical organization which most clearly illustrates how this desire for vengeance originates in the human psyche. Its aim is nonetheless paradoxical, as I tried to show in one of my recent books with the title : Perversion, vengeance as a means of survival (Bonnet, 2008). For if the perverse person has such an investment in vengeance, it is paradoxically in order to survive and to counterbalance another, deadly violence, fearsome in another way, which threatens him relentlessly from within. The perverse person counterbalances this death violence by investing every facet of vengeance and it is important to identify these in order to defuse the immediate dangers. Then we see that he invests this survival violence in two ways : either by taking them out on others, whom he transforms into survival objects, in the most serious perversions, when the subject is entirely steered by the dialectic of violence ; or else by investing against his will some facet of the violence in such a way that it is limited to its consequences for the other : this runs the gamut from Don Juanism to masochism and fetishism, and includes all the varieties of narcissism and voyeurism that are rampant today.

Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°2, pp. 281-291.

ENG - Mesure et démesure - 2011 T. 29 n°2

Guy Scharmann : on repression in adolescence

The possibility of psychanalysis in adolescence raises the question of the existance of psychoanalysis every time repression is secondary in the patient’s problematic. Using concepts of subjectivation and the subjectivating agent, this article proposes to describe the main principles of a possible practice of psychoanalysis with the adolescent.

Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°2, pp. 271-280.

ENG - Mesure et démesure - 2011 T. 29 n°2

François Richard : what the encounter with the adolescent teaches the psychoanalyst

Is there such thing as psychoanalysis of the adolescent ? Two points of view will be refuted, one which considers adolescence as the moment of repression after-the-fact and one which is frightened of the danger of enflamed passions in a two-person clinical situation. The history of theoretical elaborations about adolescence introduces one to a conception of the encounter between the psychoanalyst and the adolescent that can shed light on psychoanalytical practice with the adult.

The Freudian method of interpreting drive conflict and the transference is applicable with the adolescent, as is demonstrated by the treatment of a young adolescent presenting anorexic and addictive disorders. Here borderline ways of functioning correspond to contra-phobic projective defenses, repression being covered by splitting.

Some hypotheses are advanced concerning current adolescent and young adult pathologies (paradoxical recourse to forms of excitation meant to de-sexualize, externalization of psychical interiority) in a context of « civilization and its discontents ».

Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°2, pp. 245-270.