Archives par mot-clé : Transference

Maja Perret- Catipovic: Hate for transference – Transference hate

Reversely from aggressiveness, which aims at hurting the other person, hate attacks the other person’s very existence as a differenciated object. Yet it should not be mistaken for destructiveness since it stands surety for an unfailing bond between patient and therapist. It is indeed difficult to be tolerated within the counter-transference-transference relationship but it does not all the same represent a major threat for the outcome of a therapeutic process.

Sylvie le Poulichet : Ways of Becoming a Subject

This article attempts to shed new light on the notion of subjectivation, privileging the perspective of becoming-subject within specular transference systems. Two clinical sequences, showing these becoming-subjects first in dream figuration, and then in the passage through the negative, enable us to understand the peculiarities of identifying times.

François Pommier : idealization, pre-adolescence and transference

As he retraces the treatment of one of his female patients, the author seeks to show the vicissitudes of the transference relation up until the moment when the analytic unbinding permits the patient to leave analysis. The tipping point occurs when the analyst attempts to revisit within the counter-transference the consensual relations of the latency period. The patient, whose functioning has been hampered since puberty, then consents to question the parental images of her pre-adolescence and finds a new dynamic, leading her to discover the structural elements of her personality. The author emphasizes the way in which the analyst is led to displace himself within the treatment, finally adopting the position of a witness, which enables him to remove himself from the process of idealization in which his patient tends to enclose herself and to get her out of the precarious situation in which the psychoanalytical situation had closed her. The author explains to what extent, in the counter-transference, his own anxieties and the expression of his sometimes dizzying position enables his patient to journey through her pre-adolescence.

Philippe Gutton : the mystical paradox

The mystical evolution of St. Theresa of Lisieux is examined using a model of the state of illusion (according to Winnicott’s approach). The latter, defined by its paradoxical quality – “ me-not me ”, “ living-dying ” – is fragile before the threat of a paradoxical injunction. Throughout her childhood, this threat was acted out by what Theresa, after her mother’s death, called “the moms”. She had a very eventful childhood which would turn mystical when, in adolescence, her illusion tutors were condensed into “ Jesus-moms ”. “ Conversion ” she calls it, a transference soon consolidated by her Carmelite vocation and her doctrine.

Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°1, pp. 65-88.

Paola Marion : discussion 2

This paper discusses the clinical material presented by Kari Hauge along certain lines of reflection mainly concerned with issues of trauma, regression, and transference. The trauma to which I refer seems to be related to the patient’s whole life and to her inability to make use of an experience of continuity and stability of being. The issue is discussed from the point of view of the repetition of trauma in adolescence and its manifestations in the analytic situation.

Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°1, pp. 41-52.

Vincenzo Bonaminio : « these anxieties are not mine ». the struggle to assimilate « foreign » sensations and « strange » affects

This article springs from an exploration of persecutory anxieties and defenses in adolescence, starting with the case of Osvaldo, who has been in analysis for four years. The article retraces the first three years of his treatment and shows the effect of these persecution anxieties on the construction of the transference and counter-transference, as well as their role of assimilating the Self when threats of disintegration and annihilation overwhelm the subject

Christian Bonnet, Stéphanie Pechikoff : adolescent romance and pubertary scenes

We suggest the notion of adolescent romance, to be understood in this way : the articulation of the structure of the family romance with pubertary scenes, as « new » scenes or composition/creations, within a dimension that is more elaborative than defensive. The adolescent romance is not a simple re-issue, but rather the creation of a desiring scenario whose movement requires three logical steps: a switching on of the structures of family romance ; then, the highlighting of pubertary scenes composed of « blazons » attached to the desiring axes ; and lastly, a narrative movement which produces this adolescent romans in the transference in the clinical exchanges. In the cases of Gunther and Celeste, the romances are analyzed, their forms as well as their functions of elaboration and of psychical construction in the service of adolescens processes. The adolescent romance, when it reveals itself in the transference, is specific and is distinguished from the Freudian family romance by the representativeness of the pubertary scenes.

revue Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°4, pp. 787-800.

Stephen Briggs, Louise Lyon : a developmentally focussed time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy for adolescents and young adults : origins and application

This article discusses processes involved in articulating and evaluating a model of time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy for young people (TPP-A). Through the therapeutic focus on a significant area of developmental difficulty and/or disturbance, within a time-limited period, TPP-A aims to enable the young person to recover the capacity to meet developmental challenges and/or have this capacity strengthened. The article elaborates key aspects of the model and discusses an illustrative case.

Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°2, pp. 415-434.

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.