Through the case of Wu-Ying, a psychotic teenager, we try to show what paths the psychical work can take. The choice of a transitional area composed of three people, associating a French teacher and a psycho-pedagogue – both clinical psychologists – and the company of an original literary work, Feather, by Henri Michaux, have allowed Wu-Ying to subjectivate his history, thanks to the dynamic play of passivation and drive activity.

Adolescence, septembre 2002, 20, 3, 499-508