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De nombreux travaux se sont intéressés au phénomène de radicalisation puis de départ pour le djihad d'adolescents français. Une question spécifique concerne la conversion à l'Islam puis la radicalisation et le départ pour le djihad d'adolescents non musulmans. L'objectif principal de cet article est de montrer tout d'abord les conséquences subjectives d'une conversion à l'Islam dans un contexte où l'environnement est saturé par le discours totalitaire d'un Islam politique puis les conséquences d'une défaillance de l'environnement qui entrave des identifications secondaires à un féminin désirable. Les liens entre mères et adolescents sont au cœur de cet article. La méthode utilisée est celle de l'analyse, à partir de la théorie psychanalytique, des entretiens non directifs avec des mères concernées par la conversion à l'Islam à l'adolescence de leurs enfants et leurs départs pour le djihad en Syrie et en Irak dans les années 2010 et suivantes. Le contexte spécifique des entretiens (annonce récente de la mort des adolescents ou détention dans des camps) a nécessité une adaptation du cadre des entretiens de recherche afin de créer et de maintenir un lien transférentiel. L'analyse des entretiens ont permis de confirmer l'importance subjective de la conversion à l'Islam comme évènement psychique majeur équivalent à la découverte du féminin au travers de la présence massive de fantasmes matricides. Ces fantasmes prennent la forme de la pratique anachronique de la taqîya , du départ pour le djihad. Ils se retrouvent dans les liens conservés après le départ. Elle porte sur la place des pères et des fratries qui n'a pu être explorée et est une ouverture vers d'autres recherches. Les pères semblent occuper une place spécifique liée à la nécessité de contacter les autorités, les ONG et sont souvent dans l'agir. Peu de pères ont souhaité participer à la recherche. Les fratries ont été très impactées par le départ d'un frère ou d'une sœur mais leurs réactions sont très diverses et méritent d'être explorées plus avant. L'adolescence est ce temps où la question du féminin et du religieux peut être concordant et peut se renverser dans son contraire en haine du féminin. Elle est bien le socle sur lequel s'appuie toutes les idéologies politiques totalitaires ou politico-religieuses. Many studies have looked at the phenomena of radicalization and then departure for jihad of French adolescents. A specific question concerns the conversion to Islam followed by a radicalization and departure for jihad of non-Muslim adolescents. This article aims to show the subjective consequences of a conversion to Islam in a context where the environment is saturated by the totalitarian discourse of political Islam and then fails to allow secondary identifications with the desirable feminine. The relationship between mothers and teenagers is at the heart of this work. The method used is that of an analysis, based on psychaoanalytical theory, of non-directive interviews with mothers concerned by the conversion to Islam in adolescence of their children and their departure for jihad in Syria and Iraq starting in the second decade of the 21st century. The specific context of the interviews (recent announcement of death or announcement of detention in the camps) required an adaptation of the research interview frame in order to create and maintain a transferential link. The results obtained through the analysis of the interviews and of the research transference, oriented by psychoanalytic theory, made it possible to confirm the subjective importance of conversion to Islam as a major psychic event equivalent to the discovery of the feminine through the massive presence of matricidal fantasies. These fantasies take the form of the anachronistic practice of taqîya, of the departure for jihad, and remain in the links maintained after the adolescents' departure. The discussion focuses on the place of fathers and siblings, which could not be explored in the context of this article, thus presenting an opening for further research. Fathers seem to occupy a specific place linked to the need to contact the authorities, the NGOs; they are often the ones to take action. Siblings are very affected by the departure of a brother or a sister, but their reactions are very diverse and merit further exploration. Adolescence is a time when questions of the feminine and of the religious can be concordant, and can be reversed into their opposite in the hatred of the feminine. It is indeed the foundation on which all totalitarian political ideologies or religious-politico ideologies are built. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cette contribution interroge les ressorts et enjeux psychiques singuliers de la trajectoire prostitutionnelle. De notre point de vue, l'entrée, le maintien et la sortie de la prostitution constitueraient des moments-clés dans le parcours de vie du sujet et révèleraient des aménagements psychiques différenciés. Dans le cadre de cette publication, nous cherchons à saisir ce que la pratique prostitutionnelle – ici des femmes – vient signifier de leur fonctionnement psychique et comment il trouve sa place dans leur histoire de vie. À partir du cas clinique de Mme G., au décours d'entretiens non directifs de recherche, nous explorons l'histoire de vie, la trajectoire prostitutionnelle et les remaniements du féminin dans l'après-coup de la prostitution. Le cas de Mme G. témoigne que le recours à la prostitution peut relever d'une tentative de dégagement de la résonance intrapsychique d'expériences traumatiques. Nous formulons l'hypothèse d'une agressivité autrefois subie, refoulée et retournée contre elle-même. Les processus de retournement contre soi et de renversement de la passivité en activité figurent un vécu d'impuissance et une dimension masochiste au service d'un narcissisme et d'un féminin vacillants, mis à mal par des expériences traumatiques précoces. La culpabilité introjectée génèrerait une auto-dévalorisation sadique et féroce et participerait à la mobilisation du registre masochiste moral dans la recherche inconsciente de punition dans la prostitution et son après-coup. Malgré sa sortie de la prostitution, Mme G. ne peut témoigner d'une rupture avec ce vécu de culpabilité animé par la pulsion de destruction. Dans ce sens, la prostitution peut se comprendre comme une actualisation d'une conflictualité psychique et susceptible de déplacements dans les différents espaces de vie du sujet. La lecture clinique proposée ne prétend pas fournir un savoir généralisable à propos de la prostitution pas plus qu'elle ne vise à repérer ou à signaler une quelconque spécificité de la pratique prostitutionnelle. Au-delà de la prostitution, c'est aussi la complexité du parcours de vie qui est questionnée ainsi que les ressorts conscients, inconscients du fonctionnement psychique et leurs répercussions tout au long du parcours de vie. Dans cette logique, le processus de sortie de la prostitution serait à entendre comme des opportunités de remaniements et de réaménagements psychiques. This contribution questions the singular motivations s and the psychic challenges of the prostitution trajectory. From our point of view, entering, remaining in, and leaving prostitution would be key moments in the subject's life and would reveal differentiated psychological arrangements. In the context of this publication, we seek to grasp what prostitution – here, of women – means in terms of their psychic functioning and how it finds its place in their life story. Focusing on the clinical case of Ms. G., over the course of non-directive research interviews, we explore the life story, the journey through prostitution, and the reworkings of the feminine after leaving prostitution. Ms. G.'s case demonstrates that the use of prostitution may be an attempt to unravel the intrapsychic resonance of traumatic experiences. We hypothesize the presence of an aggressiveness that was previously the cause of suffering, which Ms. G. subsequently repressed and turned against herself. The processes of turning against oneself and of the reversal of passivity into activity represent a lived experience of helplessness and a masochistic dimension in the service of a vacillating narcissism and femininity, undermined by early traumatic experiences. The introjected guilt would generate a sadistic and ferocious self-devaluation and would contribute to the mobilization of the moral masochistic register in the unconscious search for punishment in prostitution and its aftermath. Despite her leaving prostitution, Ms. G. remains in thrall to this experience of guilt fueled by the drive to destroy herself. In this sense, prostitution can be understood as an actualization of a psychic conflict that is susceptible to be displaced throughout the subject's lived experiences. The proposed clinical reading does not claim to provide generalizable knowledge about prostitution, any more than it aims to identify or point out any specificity of prostitution. Beyond prostitution, it is also the complexity of the subject's life trajectory that is questioned as well as the conscious and unconscious motivators of psychic functioning and their repercussions throughout life. Following this logic, the process of leaving prostitution should be understood as an opportunity for psychic reworkings and rearrangements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En appui sur les données issues d'une vaste recherche médico-psychopathologique proposée à des jeunes filles atteintes d'une agénésie utéro-vaginale — syndrome de Rokitansky ou Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) — notre travail propose l'analyse psychodynamique de la valeur et de la fonction pour l'économie psychosomatique d'une réaction fréquente à l'annonce diagnostique : le développement d'un désordre alimentaire de type prise de poids chez 4 patientes sur 40. La mise en perspective de l'analyse de deux cas de patientes permet d'affiner la compréhension du sens de cette émergence alimentaire dont nous faisons l'hypothèse qu'elle constitue à la fois une modalité défensive signalant les impasses du processus de construction du féminin mais aussi possiblement un levier de transformation psychique de ses incidences traumatiques. Quarante jeunes femmes MRKH âgées de 19 à 34 ans (avec un âge moyen de 25 ans ½) ont été rencontrées. La recherche leur a été proposée de 2 à 17 ans après leur annonce diagnostique et le travail clinique a consisté en une analyse rétrospective de leur expérience traumatique adolescente. Le récit des patientes a été recueilli à l'aide d'un entretien clinique à visée de recherche non directif. Deux épreuves projectives (Rorschach et Thematic Apperception Test – TAT) leur ont également été proposées pour appréhender plus finement les modalités de leur fonctionnement psychique. Les données des entretiens font l'objet d'une analyse clinique thématique ; les protocoles du Rorschach et du TAT sont analysés selon la méthode d'interprétation de l'École Française référée à la théorie psychanalytique du fonctionnement psychique. Le matériel issu des rencontres avec deux patientes diagnostiquées à l'âge de 17 ans et ayant présenté dans la suite de cette annonce une prise de poids de 10 kg est ici comparé de manière approfondie. Le repérage de contrastes en termes de problématiques et de niveaux d'élaboration entre l'entretien et les protocoles projectifs est saisissant pour chaque patiente. À travers l'analyse de l'entretien, le symptôme alimentaire de la patiente 1 paraît survenir dans un contexte psychique où l'intériorité féminine semble irreprésentable. Les protocoles projectifs révèlent à l'inverse l'accès à un travail du féminin conflictuel et symbolisé. De même, le discours de la patiente 2 sur son symptôme est à première vue bien plus élaboré que celui de la patiente 1 puisque celle-ci établit un lien subjectif entre le renoncement au projet de maternité impliqué par l'annonce du MRKH et la dimension compensatoire procurée par la prise de poids. Pourtant, le contraste offert par les tests projectifs dont les productions traduisent au contraire les fragilités identitaires et une insuffisante symbolisation du sexuel témoigne de la valeur défensive de l'excès de symbolisation de son discours manifeste dans l'entretien. Ces contrastes amènent à envisager le remplissage alimentaire comme une tentative de traitement d'une sexualité féminine déjà conflictuelle voire en impasse avant la découverte du MRKH. Ses accents traumatiques sont réactualisés et potentialisés à la faveur de l'annonce diagnostique. Les différents niveaux de problématiques repérés peuvent cohabiter chez une même femme, qu'il s'agisse d'un féminin ni construit ni intégré, d'un impossible investissement du corps interne ou d'un contre-investissement de l'impossible maternité. Dans ce contexte, l'étiopathogénie de la prise de poids qui succède à l'annonce du diagnostic est pour chaque jeune fille singulière mais toujours en lien avec un féminin et/ou un maternel atteint. En conclusion, si la prise de poids qui suit le diagnostic traduit une entrave voire une impasse (éventuellement ponctuelle) du traitement psychique de ses effets, cette annonce médicale à l'adolescence peut constituer une nouvelle chance pour ces jeunes filles, celle d'un après-coup à la valeur potentiellement mutative. Based on data from a vast medical-psychopathological research study proposed to girls suffering from utero-vaginal agenesis — Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) —, the value and the function of a frequently occurring (10%) bulimic disorder (with weight gain) at the announcement of the diagnosis are analyzed from a psychodynamic perspective. The psychic implications of the diagnosis and its consequences in terms of the modalities of the sessions with these adolescents, alongside genital sexuality, are underlined. The analysis of two cases studies, put into perspective, allows us to refine our understanding of the meaning of this food-related symptom. Therefore, this could both constitute a defensive modality signaling the impasses of the process of construction of the feminine as it could be a lever of psychic transformation of the traumatic repercussions of this process. Forty young MRKH women aged 19 to 34 (with an average age of 25 ½) are met. The research is offered to them from two to 17 years after their diagnostic announcement; clinical reflection consists of a retrospective analysis of their adolescent traumatic experience. The patients' stories are collected using a clinical research non-directive interview. Two projective methods — Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) — are also proposed to better understand the modalities of their psychic functioning at the time of the clinical encounters. Interview data are subjected to a thematic clinical analysis. The protocols of the Rorschach and of the TAT are analyzed according to the method of interpretation of the French School, which refers to the psychoanalytic theory of psychic functioning. The material, resulting from sessions with two patients diagnosed with MRKH at the age of 17 and having gained 10 kg in the aftermath of this announcement, is compared in a thorough way. The contrasts — in terms of problematics and of levels of elaboration — between the interview and the projective protocols are striking for each patient. With the analysis of the interview, the bulimic symptom of the first patient occurs in a psychic context where feminine interiority seems unrepresentable. On the contrary, projective protocols reveal access to conflicting and symbolic feminine work. In the same way, the second patient's discourse about her symptom is at first sight much more elaborate than that of the first patient; she establishes a subjective link between the renunciation of maternity inherent in the announcement of MRKH and the compensatory dimension provided by weight gain. However, the discrepancy with the projective tests is surprising in this second patient. Indeed, her productions reflect fragilities in her identity and an insufficient symbolization of the sexual that testify to the defensive value of the excessive symbolization of her speech, evident in the interview. These contrasts lead us to consider binge-eating as an attempt to treat an already conflicting female sexuality, even in deadlock, before the discovery of MRKH. Its traumatic accents are updated and potentiated with the diagnostic announcement. The different levels of identified problems can coexist in a same woman, whether it is a feminine that has neither been constructed nor integrated; an impossible investment of the internal body; or a counter-investment of an impossible maternity. In this context, the etiopathogeny of weight gain subsequent to the announcement of the diagnosis is unique for each young woman, but always in connection with an affected or wounded feminine and/or maternal. In conclusion, if the weight gain following the diagnosis reflects a hindrance or even an impasse (possibly punctual) of the psychic treatment of its effects, this medical announcement in adolescence can constitute, afterwards, a new chance for these girls, with a potentially mutative value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé Objectif Les actes de délinquance à l’adolescence, particulièrement les actes violents sont étudiés de façon presque exclusive sur le versant masculin. Ce texte se propose d’étudier et de mettre en évidence une certaine spécificité des recours à l’acte au féminin. Méthode Le recueil d’entretiens cliniques et de récits, suite à la passation d’épreuves projectives, auprès d’adolescentes résidant en foyer éducatif, vient s’articuler avec différents apports théorico-cliniques (psychopathologie psychanalytique, criminologie) permettant la mise en évidence du registre du féminin et l’étude de sa place dans les agirs violents d’adolescentes. Résultats La présence de traumatismes précoces ainsi que la dimension narcissique de l’acte délinquant « sous le regard des garçons » sont au premier plan. Les symptômes dépressifs, récents ou plus anciens, les angoisses de pertes constituent une constante chez des jeunes filles aux fonctionnements psychiques variés. Discussion On observe un véritable déficit des identifications structurantes. L’identification maternelle, base des identifications féminines, s’avère particulièrement fragile. Les recours à l’acte des sujets s’inscriraient ici dans une dimension d’appel à l’objet et seraient liés à une régression adaptative. Conclusion Si les recours à l’acte violent chez des adolescentes sont un révélateur des problématiques inhérentes au processus adolescent, ces jeunes filles l’expriment de manière spécifique en lien avec ce qui leur est renvoyé de l’extérieur : leur féminité et le traitement de celle-ci à travers des expériences traumatiques. Une des singularités résiderait alors dans la démarcation floue entre recours à l’acte auto et hétéro-agressif. Attaquer le féminin en soi, le détruire chez l’autre constituerait une forme « d’autoféminicide ». Objectives The acts of teenage delinquency and above all violent ones have often been reviewed from male examples. In this study, we’ll study specific acts from female teenagers. Method The corpus of clinical interviews and discussions gathered among teen girls living in educational institutions was crossed with psychological psychoanalytical and criminal studies allowing us to focus on the specificity of violent acting from girls. Result The evidence of precocious trauma along with the narcissistic dimension of delictuous acting in front of “boys eyes” stand in the foreground. Previous or recent depressive symptoms, anxiety about loss are the main constants among young girls with various psychological operating ways. Discussion We observe a real defect of structuring identifications. Mother identification basis of feminine identification appears to be extremely fragile. Resorts to acting of this population would be anchored here in an appeal dimension to the object and would be linked to an adaptative regression. Conclusion If resorts to violent acting from teen aged girls are revealing of problems inherent to teen aged, these young girls express it in a specific way linked to what they receive from the outside world: their womanhood and its treatment through traumatic experiments. One of its specifities thus residing in a blurred border between resort to acting against oneself and against others. Attacking their self womanhood or destroying it at other girls would be a sort of self “womanhoodcide”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé La clinique des patients transsexuels nous fait considérer que ce qui fait l’homme ou la femme n’est pas qu’une histoire d’anatomie mais relèverait davantage d’une construction singulière pour chaque sujet. La transformation hormono-chirurgicale (THC), quand elle est bien indiquée, permet incontestablement de soulager une part importante de souffrance chez ces personnes en les ré-assignant dans le sexe désiré. Elle ne fait néanmoins pas taire la question du Sujet. Nous avons ainsi observé que c’est souvent une fois la marque corporelle du genre désiré inscrite par la chirurgie, qu’une autre forme de souffrance peut faire son apparition. Ce « babyblues » comme le nomme les patients, serait davantage lié à ce passage d’une représentation imaginaire à son inscription dans le réel du corps. Souvent présent depuis l’enfance, le questionnement identitaire sera remanié au fil de l’histoire et du développement psychique de ces sujets. L’acte chirurgical en tant qu’« entame » sur le corps provoque un ensemble de bouleversements et de remaniements psychiques qui viennent réactiver l’histoire infantile de ces adultes maintenant réassignés. La « renaissance » dont parlent nos patients, vient réveiller la part infantile du sujet en leur permettant de revisiter des scènes fantasmatiques de leur histoire d’enfant et d’adolescent. À partir du suivi postopératoire d’Hortense, une jeune patiente MtF (masculin vers féminin), nous tenterons d’illustrer ce passage qui, loin d’être linéaire et continu, nous fait considérer que la rencontre avec le féminin peut être problématique. Pour cette patiente, comme beaucoup d’autres, c’est une fois le parcours de THC terminé que le féminin vient les questionner car après tout : qu’est-ce qu’être une femme ? Dans l’espace de son travail de psychothérapie et de son suivi postopératoire avec le chirurgien, Hortense nous invite à penser la question féminine autrement. The clinical analysis of transsexuals patients leads us to consider that what constitutes a man or a woman is more a question of a singular and individual construction for each patient than a question of anatomy. The hormono-surgical reassignation when it is well indicated, undoubtedly relieves a significant share of suffering for these people by re-assigning them in the desired gender. It does not however silence the question of the individual construction. We observed that it is often when the desired gender is “marked” in the body through surgery that another form of suffering may appear. This “babyblues” as named by the patients, would be more related to the transition from an imaginary representation to its inclusion in the real of the body. Based on the postoperative follow-up of Hortense, a young patient MtF (male-to-female), we seek to illustrate this transition is far from being linear and continuous, leading us consider that the encounter with the feminine can be problematic. Often present in the childhood, the identity construction will be constantly revised during the psychical development of these subjects. The surgical procedure as an “imprint” in the body triggers psychical upheavals and overhauls which will reactivate the infantile story of these reassigned adults. The “rebirth” that the patients refer to, awakes the infantile part of the subject and allows them to revisit phantasmagoric scenes of their childhood and adolescence. For this patient, like many others, it was once the hormono-surgical reassignation course ended that she was truly confronted with the feminine question because after all: what is being a woman? In the space of her psychotherapy and her postoperative follow-up with the surgeon, Hortense invites us to think about the feminine question and gender identity from a new perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: In the juvenile surrection can be added the violence of the sexual traumatism, hindering this possible moment of narcissistic reconstruction to an incest victim. We suggest analyzing the possible investment of female identity (envelope feminity and orifice feminity) to a prepubescent girl, victim of childhood incest. We put the hypothesis, which the expulsion of the representations bound to the incest affects the possible investment of the feminine body and its containment function. We referred to three studies, using projective tests, concerning teenagers (some were hospitalized after a suicide attempt and the others had no psychiatric care) and women, victims of childhood incest or which suffered from maltraitant in childhood. To our subject, the projective tests (Rorschach and Thematic Aperception Test) give evidence of the repression of the female identity, a lack of dynamism and mobility of the thought and relational problems. The question of the sexual identity seems evaded by the problem of the identity, the cruelty to one and others being a way of protecting herself from any link. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: In the history of cinema, two major directors, in two important films, have succeeded in treating the clinic of paranoia in an exciting and rigorous way. Luis Buñuel in El (This Strange Passion) from 1952 delivers a very precise portrayal of a jealous and litigious paranoiac. Roman Polanski''s 1967 The Tenant is a subject''s descent into hell: a subject persecuted by his neighbours who slowly transforms into a woman. We will show how these two cinematographic works give an account, each in their own way, of the paranoiac''s subjective position, that of the accuser, so as to extract the position of a trash object, a humiliated man, in short, a waste object, this being the position he is assigned by the Other. Thus we have a precise account of the state of urgency the delusional subject is plunged into, and a description in fine detail of the progressive rise of anxiety that leads to the pressing necessity for a sacrifice. We shall conclude with the different outcome of the delusion for each of the characters, underlining the originality of Polanski who introduces the question of the passage à l’acte in paranoia. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Objectives: The projective protocols are due for analysing one type of gender dysphoria, a kind from transsexual females, looking for an anatomical sexual status to prove their one''s identity. This psychogenesis feeling comes directly from their maternal imago. The female identity and these derived experiences, through transsexuals, are the fundamentals of this article. Patients and methods: From five cases submitted to the multi-clinical exams protocol, we can observe three charts from Murray''s Thematic Aperception Test (TAT). In chart 5, 7 GF, 9 GF, we can see the saturation level of the latent attraction from the maternal and female identity question. According to a psycho-dynamical clinical conception to intervene on the body, the deadlock in the conflict between the transsexual female and the mother lead to less fantasy. From the TAT results, one could notice a clash to the facts, a difference in perception, an unmarked or avoiding the reality (type C on the analysis rates, originated by Shentoub). Results: The analysis of the observed individual indicates a shortage of the narrative ability as well as the inter-personal one. It comes to stories overstepping the external reality. The dramatic effect does not exist and the perception fulfils a non-significant internal reality. In that case the perception takes the place of the representation and the affect is therefore plaid down. At the end of the narration, it occurs that the psychodynamic test of personality of the candidates to a sexual reassignment is more important and reinforced. Conclusion: Some questions are pending due to the non conflictual relationship from the transsexuals to their mothers and about the sexual post-reassignment. Once reconciled with her own look, how should the transsexual female deal with her own mother, and in the future how should her be in love or having sexual relations with other females? [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The psychiatric spheres of classification and exclusive treatment of the symptom do not make any more case of the hysteria as structure. Now the current clinical confronts us with the instigation of this clinical entity which it is questioning, according to a mode of thinking psychoanalytical, in the light of the analysis of the transfer. This analysis reveals different time and modalities of the transferential scene, the value of paradigm of which as for time of construction of the hysteria can be questioned. Worried about a theoretical and clinical reflection, the author aims, to question the psychogenesis of the hysteria, to question the position of the clinician in the course of the variations of the transferential dynamics. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Endometriosis is a disease, which requires medication or surgery to be treated. However, it can be considered as a symptom psychoanalytically speaking. Before going further into the question from this point of view, let us examine some prolegomena — preliminary principles. The scientistic ideology of a La Mettrie''s “Human Machine”, the unconscious subject promoted by psychoanalysts for more than a century, the Anglo-American notion of post-traumatic stress disorder, and womanhood and the mental structure customarily called hysteria stand for the main prolegomena. English and French speaking psychopathological literature is reviewed to introduce our personal experience of women with endometriosis. Finally, a public consultation is considered to confirm or invalidate scientific data stemmed from psychoanalytical experience. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Lasthénie de Ferjol, heroine of the tale Une Histoire sans Nom written by Barbey d''Aurevilly, a young lady leading herself to death by self provoked hemorraghes, appears to be a paradigm of family problematic passed from one generation on to the next one through actings. We study here the link between self bleeding and severe anorexia nervosa, which is described in several case reports, noticing that both of these two symptoms are quite specific from the women. We can understand through this tale how a mother tangled up in a great driving violence and the destructivness coming with the fight against melancolic collapse can pass this violence on to her daughter in an underword way. Then the young girl repeats a story which is not hers, trying to get out of this destiny with actings: we see here how an unhealthy behaviour can be salutary, because of the differenciation it carries out. After all, Lasthénie de Ferjol syndrom seems to be very close to anorexia nervosa, the blood of provoked hemorraghes refering to the undernutrition provoked amenorrheae. The central problematic of these teenage girls'' deseases would be the stakes and the risks of reaching womanhood, that is to say the acception of the passive position, which refers to the infans- mother relationship. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In this study, anorexia nervosa has been examined from an etiopathogenic and psychoanalytical viewpoint. The sociocultural environment and transgenerational context have been analyzed as contributing factors in the dysfunction of early parent-child relations and the subsequent effect of this on the development of the child, particularly during adolescence. We have hypothesized that the “failure’’ on the part of the mother to express her feminine and maternal nature, and the absence of attention paid to her child’s own body are major contributing factors. This absence of expression of the maternal instinct does not favor a positive perception and integration into the child’s personality of the feminine aspect of its nature, and thus contributes to the development of a sado-masochistic attitude that is focused on the infantile stage. The most frequently encountered condition in the mothers of anorexic patients appears to be the resurgence during maternity and in the initial mother-infant exchanges of a syndrome that can be defined in terms of a mind-body split which is responsible for the child’s failure to construct a psychic and somatic self. The structuring of the self in the child, in particular the impulsive and identificatory aspects of its personality are negatively affected by the absence of a feminine role model, as when the self is separated from the carnal origin of the emotions this can cause a marked inability to constitute a body image. We therefore consider that in these pathologies, the underlying cause is an absence of focus on the somatic self, which has an effect on the initial construction of a body image. We hypothesize that a “body to body’’ transmission (in the form of body engrams) of a maternal psychopathology occurs, and that as the child is confronted with the unstructured development and lack of management of its mother’s feminine and maternal nature, it does not have a physical or psychic reference. Therefore the bodily sensations become linked to the development of a morbid autosensuality and autoeroticism, as they have not been physically or mentally stimulated in a positive manner by the object, that is to say by the mother. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]