In narcissistic and psychotic pathologies in adolescence, group psychoanalytic psychodrama uses play to foster the decline of omnipotence and the rise of ambiguity. It thus opens the way towards transitionality. This article reports a session of group psychodrama in the course of which there is an attempt to contain and give figuration to incestual and murderous actings. We discuss therapeutic issues when faced with this murderous hatred directed at the psychodrama-object.

Adolescence, 2021, 39, 2, 391-402.