Isolating is an institutional affair, to isolate oneself is to play with the inner/outer shell of the « Ego-skin ». Every decision concerning the adolescent and every treatment is situated within this complexity: does the outside, the perceptual, bring into the isolation enough traces for him to be able to think about it, for him to have a capacity for reverie – that is, for him to be able to carry out his adolescence?
Archives par mot-clé : Philippe Gutton
Philippe Gutton : parenthood
The concept of parenthood is distinguished from that of kinship as studied by doctors and anthropologists. It defines an original psychical work that the author posits as a creative process. The experience of parenthood is developed as the primary narcissism from an archaic, enigmatic un-creatable, in order to engage in Oedipal conflict ; a creation in which filiation and affiliation are in play. Individual work is incited and limited by the experience of the biological parents and by the child himself, engaged in his original self-creation. The mission of third-party parentalization is to free itself from fantasmatic and acted conflict, in order to raise, in day-to-day conduct and speech, the question of the unconscious of each member of the family and the family group.
Philippe Gutton: the trace of the pubertaire
The experience of the pubertaire has a central place in the treatment of the adult. It is the trace out of which the dream and the psychical work of the adolescens develop. Affirming and confirming its innovative value in the revisiting of childhood sexuality inspires images in dreams in the wake of adolescent subjectivation. This point of view justifies interventions aimed at deconstructing infantile phallic theories whose rigidity is liable to stifle the pubertaire.
Philippe Gutton : creation and society
We study the dialectic opposition between two dynamics : adolescent creativity, which is supposed to be shared, and socio-political institutions. The second may frame the first harmoniously or there may be a rupture of development.
Philippe Gutton : the pubertaire savant
The construction of identity is mobile and present ; it has the important quality of being sexual. First of all, the phallic infantile, then, at puberty major readjustments take place because of the experience of the pubertaire. The author describes this “ metamorphosis ” in a number of works which are recalled and brought together here. He now emphasizes on the organization that constitutes the other: what other ? The unconscious of the other in romantic seduction.
Philippe Gutton : friend culture
Developing the theme of culture among friends accentuates the shared ideals that are constructed at this time. In a first chapter, this “ adolescens or intersubjectal culture ” is differentiated from the intergenerational “ psychology of fathers and mothers ”. It helps to construct adolescent communities whose references are a-familial.
Groups of couples should be distinguished from communities of friends. The first have a class dialectic with institutions. The second have intercommunity relations which are inter and intra-generational. These theoretical points of view will conclude with the analysis of the adolescent friendship of Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola and its outcome.
Philippe Gutton : Une métamorphose s’achève
Le début de l’adultité est marqué par la capacité de désir et de fantasme d’enfant, l’art de devenir parent.
L’adolescent capable d’engendrement refoule ou dénie les représentations incestueuses trop à vif susceptibles de s’y associer. L’auteur réfléchit dans cette optique aux conduites pathologiques qu’une telle conviction suscite à l’adolescence.
Philippe Gutton : the mystical paradox
The mystical evolution of St. Theresa of Lisieux is examined using a model of the state of illusion (according to Winnicott’s approach). The latter, defined by its paradoxical quality – “ me-not me ”, “ living-dying ” – is fragile before the threat of a paradoxical injunction. Throughout her childhood, this threat was acted out by what Theresa, after her mother’s death, called “the moms”. She had a very eventful childhood which would turn mystical when, in adolescence, her illusion tutors were condensed into “ Jesus-moms ”. “ Conversion ” she calls it, a transference soon consolidated by her Carmelite vocation and her doctrine.
Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°1, pp. 65-88.
Philippe Gutton : « I accuse »
Paranoiac thinking and functioning have a certain specificity within the process of adolescence. It would be an ordinary or pathological limit imposed upon their creativity, a limit inscribed in the pubertary pictogramme which is carried out not with the Other but against the Other. The basis upon which adolescent creation is carried out is the pubertary state of illusion in the Winnicottian sense in which the « Infantile Ego » and the « pubertary non-yet-an-ego » are in a paradoxical relation. Paranoia would be the effect of a paradoxical injunction coming from the subject and from his environment, attacking the fundamental state of illusion. Starting from this thesis, the features of adolescent paranoia are considered: causalist thinking, the pairing of disavowal-projection, the accusation of the genital body.
The last chapter seeks out possible corollaries of this thesis for adolescent treatment, in order to get around the obstacle of paranoia: working as much as possible in the register of associative thought, refusal of the inside-outside opposition in favour of a mutual relation in the session, which is treated as an observatory for external events regularly recounted by the adolescent, the importance of counter-transference in provoking positive transference.
Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°3, pp. 571-596.
Philippe Gutton : at risk of creating
Making adolescence heroic involves two processes. One has to do with the creation of the intersubjectalization that constructs the ideals of adolescence ; the other places this construction in confrontation with the gaze of the infantilo-adult institutionalized as the the societal Superego.
The hero would be the one who refuses to succumb in spite of the discourse of the master which disavows him in a Lauferian breakdown, the one who stands up and pleads his adolescent case.
Adolescence, 2013, T. 31, n°2, pp. 281-298.