Contenu du sommaire : Le symptôme

Considering the following statement that the psychoanalytic symptom as consultation incentive is replaced by complaint and vague uneasiness, the author resolves to consider this uneasiness like a symptom awaiting its elaboration. She bases herself on the freudian theory that displays the act and repetition notions and consequently recaptures their significance thanks to the second topography's contribution to propose the theoretical steps that allow the building up of this uneasiness into a psyhoanalytic symptom

The authors enlarge on the interest of psychoanalytic familial therapy to elaborate the individual or the group's symptoms. They show how the “used analogies”, ossified in the familial talking, converge towards the fixation of the intersubjective correlations, that stop the thought. In their plan of action, the authors try to give to the analogical links of thought all their power of transformation, thanks to the tension between similar and dissimilar they contain. A enlarged clinical illustration sets out the transition from an used analogy to a lively analogy, product by the therapeutic's impulsion, and the subjective effects that follow this “altérité's work”.

The trauma of sexual could it try to be said within the clinical meeting, meets tranferential otherness, under pretext of the traumatic suffering? Such is the question that tied will approach here, while following the course of Mr. A, affected badly burned person by a traumatic neurosis. We will show how the father like symptom, revealed by the phantasm freudien of fustigation, could determine at the same time control at the risk of the subject but more especially his clinical assumption of responsibility. For this reason, we will examine the stakes transféro against tranferential of the “passion of the ignorance” of the symptom, in catch at the subject as in the known as meeting, and this in order to learn some lessons in the private clinic from them from traumatized.

This article deals with of binge eating disorder, which is a frequent trouble in present psychological practice without many researches about it. From a case of a patient (Elisabeth), the autor showes the positive value of this trouble and its function in the subjective reconstruction. In the present case, binge eating disorder appears constitute the incarnated trace of a traumatic past experience and its symbolization.

Infertility has always been seen as a plague, a curse arousing both scientist's and charlatan's interest. Regarded as an exclusively female pathology, its etiology did generate many speculations. This symptom awakes the imaginary and create contrasted attitudes depending from the societies and times. In spite of remarkable scientific progress on this matter, the way patients talk about it still the heritage of the myths, the taboos and prohibition present in our unconscious collectives. Through the clinical history of Ariane, we will see the irrational allows a mythological construction which defines and protects the patient's identity.

In Vietnam like elsewhere, the clinical approach of the symptom requires a certain number of essential locations. Through the presentation of selected elements of the analysis of a little Vietnamese girl, we will locate what is concerned with the junction of the knowledge and the truth in the symptomatic setting. In order to do that we will set our reflections on the side of the object about which one speaks to go towards the subject who is analyzed. Brought as a symptom the child is often the reflection of various confrontations as well on the side of the knowledge, via the parental speech, as on the side of the joy, via the encounter with the enigmatic desire of the Other, this will perceive the effects during the analytical work. These elements enable us to approach the way in which the symptom of the child is correlated with one significant testifying the return of the repressed, of an unknown knowledge fastened with the truth of the parental couple. The space of analysis allows the circulation of the speech opening the access to the sense and the joy inserted in the symptom, it supports the appearance of the subject in its singular truth.

The money being closer intricate with drug in the existence of the drug addicts, we wondered about the way in which the economic life determined the symptomatic forms. As a preliminary we released two logics, by using the paradigm of the gift like counterpoint. The first one, which of the gift, privilege the dimension of the exchange and the bond. The second, which of the market economy, privileges the treatment of the values. Then questioning us on the concept of symptom we propose to conceive the psychopathological demonstrations like resulting from a dynamics between disorder and compensation. Having posed these two preconditions, we build two possible versions of symptomatic adjustment of the economic world which we confront with fragments of our clinical experiment within a residential institution for drug addicts.

Psychosocial support and follow up of individuals, socially and professionally weakened, drives social actors to face with suffering and other various symptoms that individuals feel in social helplessness situation. This article proposes a way to understand, from a “theorico-clinical” point of view, the subjective effects of precariousness and of the exclusion process by questioning the stakes of the social link for the subject of the unconscious.

We tried to understand the boby marking (tattoo and piercing) and street furniture marking (tag and graffiti) among adolescents according three analysis axis. First, the obvious level, visible in the concrete, lead us to question about the social role of markings and about the impact of their meanings. Second, the extent of the obvious content through the young's speech took up the issue of the family and the access to identity. Finally, we studied the markings as outcomes of the private, of unconscious psychological conflicts. The aim of the research is to show the different possible approaches of the motivations subtending the markings, from psychosocial to unconscious inner reasons.

We tackle the peculiar story of Jean-Claude Romand, murderer of his wife, his parents and his children, by considering the participation of his near relations to the identity setting that will lead him to the deadly outcome. The question is well to know who supports the symptom in this construction; as a preliminary, we show that this construction turns well on the question of his identity. His relation to money, the anthropological logic of gift, and the scenography of the murders are various operators on which we have tested this hypothesis of identity disorder. In the second part, we unfold the springs of the others' participation to the symptomatic building of the personage of JCR. Through this distinction that we bring between couples and duos, we show that the subjectivation through confrontations and encounters only plays falsely in favour of JCR.