The aim of this article is to understand how, from a psychoanalytical perspective, the group plays a central role in the journey of adolescence. It will sustain the process of dis-investing childhood family relations that seem incestuous, and allow one to turn towards extra-familial object choices. The group and the often-huge investment of it in adolescence ultimately helps one to become oneself and fosters the work of subjectivation.
Adolescence, 2023, 41, 1, 233-246.
L’objectif de cet article est d’appréhender comment le groupe, dans une perspective psychanalytique, joue un rôle central dans la traversée adolescente. Il va soutenir le processus de désinvestissement des relations familiales infantiles à coloration incestueuse, et permettre de se tourner vers des choix d’objets extra-familiaux. Le groupe et l’investissement souvent massif de celui-ci à l’adolescence permettent, in fine, de devenir soi et de nourrir le travail de subjectivation.
Adolescence, 2023, 41, 1, 233-246.
Through the exploration of a clinical case, this article will discuss what is at stake in the process of subjectivation in the adolescent, and also the obstacles that stand in the way of the process. The adolescent, confronted with internal and external otherness, tries to ensure the continuity of his identity even as he is undergoing transformation. We will show how the therapeutic encounter, as a transitional space, can foster the play of identifications and the gradual uniting of the of the split-off parts of the personality that is undergoing subjectivation.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 309-320.
L’exploration d’un cas clinique va nous permettre d’aborder les enjeux mais aussi les achoppements dans le processus de subjectivation chez l’adolescent. Ce dernier, confronté à l’altérité interne et externe, tente d’assurer sa continuité identitaire tout en se transformant. Nous allons montrer comment la rencontre thérapeutique, en tant qu’espace transitionnel, peut favoriser le jeu identificatoire et l’union progressive des parties clivées de la personnalité en cours de subjectivation.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 309-320.
The article situates tertiary processes (A. Green) as subjectivation work. They originate in the link with the first subjectal object, the mother. The tertiary processes have two interwoven components: negative, trying to sort through the power of external objects (work of negative hallucination), and positive, psychic creativity, representance which is shared among three angles of study: affect, internal-external object representation, and word representation.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 1, 9-24.
We will try to show that the clinical treatment of hallucinations in adolescence, often pigeonholed as “symptoms of psychotic processes,” is situated at the borders of the process of subjectivation that is restarted and overhauled at this age. Looking at two situations, we explore this clinical area and what it can teach us about the current subjectivities, beyond the Oedipal norm.
Adolescence, 2021, 39, 2, 425-432.
The aim of this article is to relate activism at the time of the pubertary process to the adolescent’s dual mission of finding a place in the world as it exists, and at the same time finding ways to express a drive that will always feel singular. Issues of reinvestment give rise to a search for the right relationship between binding and unbinding, an unavoidable dialectic which defines the human being’s inscription in the world.
Adolescence, 2021, 39, 1, 43-55.
La visée de cet article est de relier les engagements au pubertaire à la double mission pour l’adolescent de s’inscrire dans le monde tel qu’il existe, tout en trouvant les modalités à l’expression d’une pulsion vécue sur un mode à jamais singulier. Les enjeux de réinvestissement provoquent la recherche d’un juste rapport entre liaison et déliaison, dialectique indépassable par laquelle se définit l’inscription de l’être humain au monde.
Adolescence, 2021, 39, 1, 43-55.
Les auteurs souhaitent montrer en quoi le psychodrame de groupe est une indication particulièrement adaptée aux adolescents pour lesquels l’activité de verbalisation n’est pas toujours aisée. L’analyse d’un jeu psychodramatique illustrera comment ce dispositif offre la possibilité de relancer la pulsion d’interliaison et de soutenir une pensée scénique à la base même de l’action relationnelle.
Adolescence, 2020, 38, 2, 521-531.
This article focuses on violent acts in the adolescent hospitalized in psychiatry, using a clinical case to discuss, on the one hand, how through the violent act and lack of symbolization, the adolescent will come to figure a pubertary impasse, inviting a hypothesis of pubertary psychosis; and on the other hand, how the clinician can open up a therapeutic perspective when faced with ruptures of the symbolic process that drive the adolescent to enact violence.
Adolescence, 2019, 37, 2, 403-422.