Starting from the psychoanalytic cure of a young adult, this paper tries to delineate the traces of the passage towards the adult stage beyond adolescence. The patient is of an hysterical nature with a psychosomatic dimension and a tendency to actings. The cure enabled as a differed action the process of elaboration of puberty hindered afore.
The way the multifold infantile pregenital partial drives may be recaptured within a « polyphonic » genital synthesis is here studied. Adult subjectivization is fed with the closeness of the infantile sexual, the best way to avoid a defensive and unauthentic adult structuration would thus be to tolerate some part of childhood and adolescence in one self.
Archives de catégorie : ENG – Commencer sa vie d’adulte – 2000 T. 18 n°2
blandine foliot : some kind of disillusion
Beginning one’s adult life represents a true psychological turning point putting the ego to trial with some kind of disillusion, i.e. The loss of one’s infantile love object. The dream experience during that specific time exercizes some specific function which is essential and becomes some kind of new interior path, a royal path towards a return to drive and unconscious sources of a depressive disentanglement.
Thoughts, or thought moves, censored during day time are being visualized in dream, since experience allows, under the cover of some kind of conditioned deformation, their transposition into images which, with another transformation through their being updated when waking up, will be reshuffled and rehandled, insert themselves to the ego and to the psychological life whose limits they widen.
dominique agostini : about the internal divorce : impasse and overcoming
Through his clinical material of a therapy, the author will analyze, on the one hand, the impact of the puberty surge on internalization, far before puberty, of deeply disunited parents. On the other hand, the author will study the transformations which, vectorized by the therapeutic process, will indeeed preside to the reuniting of the internal parents. The author will develop that such a deep reconciliation is specifically fruitful for the adolescent process and has indeed an impact on its coming to be achieved, thus enabling the subject to begin his life as an adult.
The clinical study will pay a specific care to the separations during the holidays. Such holidays always represent, for the infantile parts, the parents’ sexual intercourses and the mother’s pregnancy. The clinical data will illustrate how such breaches in the therapeutic setting renew, with the internal divorce, « nameless agonies » colliding with the fantasy of « combined parents ». Both the internal divorce and the combined parents will appear as being the major obstacles to entering the adult life.
alain braconnier : beginning one’s adult life with an analytic cure
The factors differenciating the specificities of the intra psychological and interpersonal characteristics of the « young adult » as differenciated from those of the « adolescent » might be better understood with référence to the following questions : does offering a psychoanalytic cure to a « young adult » differ from starting a psychoanalytic cure with an « adolescent » ? Should the former have a « classical » cure cure which the latter would not undergo ? If such is the case, what would the arguments for and against be ?
philippe gutton : a metamorphosis is coming to an end
he beginning of adulthood is stressed by the capacity of the fantasy and desire of having a child and the art of becoming a parent. The adolescent able of betting a child represses or denies the incestuous representations on the edge liable to be associated to them. The author ponders, within such a background, over the pathological behaviours which such an approach is liable to lead to at adolescence.
philippe jeammet : being an adult or how to learn how to deal with the infantile
The swiftness of present social changes compel us to question what grounds the entrance into the adult world. To be an adult seems far more a new modality of psychological functioning, liable to quite a few unpredictable changes, rather than a state as such. Such a functioning does not so much refer to an absolute ideal than to the potentialities of a given subject within a given context. It would thus reside in this very capacity of the ego to welcome and be in contact with what remains of the infantile in everyone without being overwhelmed and threatened.