The confinement of adolescents is here considered here as a kind of psychic immobility that keeps the symptom from forming. The transference with its binding-unbinding movement enables regression, thus transforming the primordial sadism into erogenous masochism. The pleasure principle can then become a true guardian of psychic life.

Word, Cloîtré 2023 T. 41 n°1 5 mars 2023