The article situates tertiary processes (A. Green) as subjectivation work. They originate in the link with the first subjectal object, the mother. The tertiary processes have two interwoven components: negative, trying to sort through the power of external objects (work of negative hallucination), and positive, psychic creativity, representance which is shared among three angles of study: affect, internal-external object representation, and word representation.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 1, 9-24.
This article will analyze the notion of subjectivation according to R. Cahn (2016) using the example of psychoanalytical practice in a Center for Adolescents that he created (CEREP). The notion of borderline state is redefined with reference to adolescence by the incapacity to gain access to the position of subject of one’s own psychical experience in terms of being. From this is derived a renewed conception of psychoanalytical practice which is specified, justified and distinguished from some contemporary derivatives.
Adolescence, 2017, 35, 1, 169-186.
The possible paths that the affects of one’s love life may take, starting with the moment when the object is born, then as an investment of oneself and the other, and finally in so-call mature love, are blended together in numerous forms and in the intensity of transference love. Starting with the dynamic between transference and counter-transference at work in the analysis of Antonella, we will see how clinical work sheds light on the many vicissitudes adolescents go through, their infinite symptomatic solutions, the countless pains of their love life, which are linked to their fidelity to the primary identification, to the strength of this loved and hated bond, but also, at the same time, to the reactivation of the process of subjectalization and subjectivation.