Archives par mot-clé : Capacity for reverie

Philippe Gutton : insularity

Isolating is an institutional affair, to isolate oneself is to play with the inner/outer shell of the « Ego-skin ». Every decision concerning the adolescent and every treatment is situated within this complexity: does the outside, the perceptual, bring into the isolation enough traces for him to be able to think about it, for him to have a capacity for reverie – that is, for him to be able to carry out his adolescence?