An HIV infection is a matter of blood, sex and death which thus focuses real and imaginary fears, and constitutes a surface onto which our fears may be projected. HIV is one of the agents of transgenerational transmission, an organizer of family bonds
Archives de catégorie : ENG – Entre les générations – 2007 T. 25 n°4
DELAGE MICHEL: ADOLESCENCE AS AN INTERGENERATIONAL PROCESS AND FAMILY THERAPY
This work explains how from a clinical observation the process of adolescence concerns the whole family and obliges the different partners to carry out a specific work whose stakes are certainly different depending on whether they are considered from the parent’s or from the adolescent’s perspective. Two notions help to understand those stakes. On the one hand, the process of separation-individuation and, on the other hand, the attachment with its tribulations. The therapy, focussed on these elements, helps the adolescent to subjectivate himself by taking into account that which is a matter for a transmission between the generations. In these conditions, family therapy often constitutes a preliminary step towards an individual work more centred on the adolescent’s internal world.
EIGUER ALBERTO : TRANSMISSION OF RESPONSIBILITY
»This article presents some recent developments in the theory of transmission. The author recalls the earliest contributions to this theory ; traumas endured by ancestors may be the source of the trouble, especially if they were experienced as shameful by the descendants and kept secret. But transmission has a structuring character for everyone; it is the basis for the establishment of the law, for the set-up of the family and for the attachment to ideals. Founding an essential axis for ethics, the notion of responsibility is also inscribed in a process of transmission. The author suggests that the parents’ gift to and the attitude toward their child plays a role in this, by giving impetus to acknowledgement in the child, in both senses of the word: that of gratitude and that of identifying the other as different.»
FLAVIGNY CHRISTIAN :CHALLENGING THE DEBT IN ORDER TO KEEP IT FOR ONESELF
»Adolescence discovers that growing up incurs debts. The child was unable to grasp this. But the adolescent does not know how to pay back this debt ; he does not feel capable of it. Whence the tendency to challenge it, a way of both for seeing it and of keeping it at a distance; what results from this is protest, which stretches the bond while preserving it.»
BENGHOZI PIERRE: THE ADOLESCENT HEIR BEARS THE IMPRINT OF GENEALOGICAL TRANSMISSION
The work of adolescence is described as a genealogical event, as an anamorphosis of psychical containers involving both the individual and the family group. It is within this dynamic of co-construction that the crisis of adolescence is distinguished, as a