Every adolescent, at every generation, is violently caught within a social context and implied within a problematics of transmission and filiation, of debt and heritage. Whether they be alone or in a group, adolescents are actors/witnesses introducing their objects, their discourses and their types of behaviour in places where they go through. Adolescence is an unstable category, without any specific seat and which may either be appropriated or melancholized. The adolescent scene, vulnerable as it is, questions forcibly the institutions and demands that a potential space should be fit enabling the transformation of both the psychological and the social that are implied within such a passage. It is a turning point where collective and individual stakes are condensed and where violences swarm and become cristallized. The adolescent scene thus becomes a violent dramatization at the crossroads between the psychological and the social.
Archives de catégorie : ENG – Le temps de la menace – 1997 T. 15 n°2
CAHN R. : BENEATH VALUES : VIOLENCE. ABOUT TELEMACHUS
Telemachus is the very example of a successfully achieved adolescence and entry into the adult world. Yet it is a deconstructed pattern, described each in its own way by Fenelon and Aragon, letting appear a drive violence whose mental functioning feeds itself whereas at the same time it strives, now with a variable success, at taming, thus revealing the richness and the depth of that mythical figure
LESOURD S. : FROM NARCISSISTIC VIOLENCE TO THE MOTHER IMAGE. ABOUT AN UNDEFINABLE ADOLESCENT GIRL
Starting from the taking care of an undefinable young adolescent girl as seen in an emergency ward, the author develops a new reading of primary narcissistic disorders resting on the vicissitudes of the subject’s trying to erect some decent psychological mother image. Hence both bodies act as “ container ” within the relationship leading the subject, when confronted to forbiddings, to react in terms of actings rather than of words. The handling of such adolescents compels one to reconstruct, within transference, an introjected mother image hence turning the archaïc body into a body caught within the language and its signifiers
FRAPPIER J. : The legaly of violence as hroism
Reading Sophocles’ tragedies about the Labdacides family, i.e. Œdipus Rex, Œdipus in Colone, and Antigone gives us an example of the compulsion to repeat through a succession of violent actings as a consequence of traumatic transgenerational psychological violence. Along with the move towards subjectivization proper to adolescence, the legacy of psychological trauma may entail the subject, likewise Antigone, towards a heroic identification which, for the sake of the good cause, will however do nothing but feed the repetition of violence
LAPLANCHE J. : The so-called death drive : a sexual drive
In the first part of his paper, which is a historico-critical one, the author shows the function of the invention of a death drive in the course of the evolution of the Freudian thought. The death drive corresponds to finding to a new balance within the heart of the sexual theory, whereas it is wrongly considerd as being an external addition to the latter.In the second part of the paper , which is a metapsychological one, the author locates the daeth drive within the genesis of the psychical apparatus as being one of the consequences of primary repressin as id componnt. The opposition between life sexual drives and death sexual drives corresponds to the fundamental polarity between binding and unbinding. In the third part, the author attemps to delineate a general psychological theory of hate starting from three factors : self-preservative aggressiveness or fighting spirit, sadistic violence of the death sexual drive, and the narcissistic specular enjoyment.
WAINTRATER R. : To grow up during the Shoah. A hindered adolescence
Adolescence characterizes itself as taking place through a need of analisis onto exterior reality. In such a situation of social and psychological catastrophe as the Shoah was, the destruction of any exterior reality prevents the subjcet from any anaclisis, thus leaving him at grips with an exterior reality experienced as being destructive. In the abscence of mediating structures, such as the group of peers or school, the adolescent will use mechanisms as the suppression of affects or denial whose prolonged use will forever stamp his psycholigical future.
LAVALLE G. : No time ! Notes on the times contairs
The paper describes the cure of an adolescent who had been formerly an austistic child suffering from time anxiety, using video as “ symbolizing mediation ” in a day hospital. The author streses quite a few clinical conditions enabling that very adolescent to leave behind a state of chaos and timeless psychotic excitment. The analysis of the psychological impac of video as a technical apparatus enables one to undesrtand that a cathexis in some mastery fixes a nd controls time, whereas the hallucinatory presentifies it again and defers it for a brief moment of eternity. By building some specific containing therapeutic position, the author allows the adolescent to find a new orientation for tme which he can modulate in term of drives then enabling him to create a vital minimum of time continumm. A final clinical sequence shows the passage from a state of anxiety in terms of panic urge, within the tims of separatin, towards the possibility to think with serenity that there may be a time for reunion. From all these observations, the author stresses a few stanpots for a psychoanalytic theory of the severeal times at work in thought processes.
SAVINAUD C. :The meaning of the unmendable
Criminal acting at adolescence may be acknowledged as a passing acting coming to ponctuate the necesary transformation of the body image proper wherefrom the rehandling of parental images surge. Eregeneous masochism plays foremost part aiming at substituting unatainable object representation to an already -there object, i.e. the body of the adolescent carriyng the maternal introject. The reversal of the drive over on to oneself and into its reverse offers him a means to contain excitement, a fragile self-control keeping the bond between aggressive and libido drives and transforming such a negative self-eroticism into moral masochism. The unmendable of acting operates as a starting point of subjectivization in the course of which the Subject can make his own crack ups rater than projectively granting them to the context.
JURRANVILLE A.: Chid epilepsy and trauma. A few thoughts on a new kind of moderne “ possession ”
This paper suggets a new appproach of the problem of the psychological status of some kinds of epileptic fits in chidhood and adolecence as linked with some trauma tic situations, in terms of the traditional Freudian interpretation of Dostoievski and parricide. It is in terms of an incorporative defence of a melancholic nature that one may stress the strictly psychosomatic dimension of the fit. Such a fit enables a “ suject ” to surge (in fact, quite desubjecticized) possessed by the “ obscene and creul ” superego as mentioned by Lacan. Such a fit seems to be an impossible task of mourning,so long as in its drive like violence it “ recaptures ” the trauma’s libidinal loading by repeating it on a kind of “ infernal ” way (Freud). The thera peutic perspectives underlying such a paradoxical function of trauma go further beyong the clinical and theoretical dialogue open between Freud and Firenczi
BERNARD A. :The breathing of Clement’s voice, a deaf adolescent
Clement’s case brings us to consider what voice may represent for a deaf adolescent. Idealized or disparaged, talkers’voice is caveted. Vocal link,symbolizing what unites earing adults, it is fantasized by the adolescent as if it were a love union, all the more as his voice was an object of an overinvestiment during his childhood. The irruption of the breaking of the voice can go with a refusal of the “ pubertal ”.