From the « annunciation to the husband » (You are going to be a father, I’m expecting your baby), through birth, to the first weeks of the baby’s life, the father who is also the mother’s companion is too often forgotten, in terms of what he is experiencing, his functions and the specific psychical upheaval the work of fatherhood entails. This research portrays the three principle phases of becoming a father and the different registers that modulate the paternal partition.
Archives par mot-clé : Crisis
Marie-Jeanne Guedj : emergencies in adolescence
The author offers some reflections on the basis of experience in a general emergency psychiatric center, which each year receives 700 youths under the age of eighteen, and a reading of Henri Flavigny’s 1984 article on emergency responses to adolescence. The emergency is actually a societal phenomenon which worsens in times of crisis. This article treats the complex temporalities of adolescence and of the emergency, a process which is both intrinsic and environmental, which may or may lead to the emergency ward, just as an emergency may or may not be present in times of crisis. Paranoia is activated in this, and is sometimes the only way of questioning what is false when compromise is not possible. In this way the emergency appears as the receptacle for the impossible adolescence, when subjectivity is at an impasse. It is revealed in an unexpected way as a place for speaking and listening.
Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n° 3, pp. 615-626.