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This study is based on psychoanalytic theory, and the concepts of uncanny, anguish and helplessness are points of convergence between psychoanalysis and Clarice Lispector's literary production, more specifically A Hora da Estrela, 1977. Starting from the failures of a society that does not fulfills the promise of protecting citizens from the malaise generated by it, literature and psychoanalysis are added together. For this, the work approaches the process of literary writing as a result of the subject's restlessness, anguish and helplessness; a creative process glimpsed in Clarice Lispector. In an attempt to better understand the concepts already described, a theoretical study was carried out, as well as the author's work. Theoretically, the research is based on Freud, Kehl, Dunker, Birman, among others. As a final result, it is possible to say that, in A Hora da Estrela, the character Rodrigo S. M., illustrates well the type of psychological helplessness proposed to be studied. Through Rodrigo S. M., artistic production supports psychic helplessness, when the other supports created by man fail, leaving the subject to the condition to build them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim is to question the emergency in the city for the subject of the unconscious, and the relationship that the latter has with time in moments of subjective emergency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of the Second World War, Lacan delivers a reflection on an unprecedented subjective logic where time takes a preponderant place, in a very precise form, haste. Its modulation effects nothing less than the “psychological birth” of the “I” and accounts for the “ontological form” of anxiety. Despite his theoretical changes, Lacan will not cease to refer to this text which makes speaking a matter of urgency, whether he ignores it or not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The inflow of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar experiencing trauma and torture is a major global issue. This article explores relationships with local communities as they are represented in the multi-vocal voices of Rohingya refugees. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with a group of Rohingya refugees based in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh along with observations of camp life. Twenty participants were interviewed. The observations provide insights into the feelings of anxiety among the Rohingya refugees. Yet, the findings also suggest that the refugees hold out hope that in Bangladesh they will find a sense of belonging. The study draws on Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia as positioned through sociological discourse, to reflect the social experiences of refugee young people and their families. The intent of the article is to open up, rather than to close off engagement with the issue – furthering awareness and possible actions to be taken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Helplessness has always been a central theme to psychoanalysis, to which Freud devoted himself in texts such as "The malaise in civilization" (1930/1996e) and "The future of an illusion" (1927/1996c), so based on this concept, we carried out qualitative research with patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit of a university hospital. The helplessness and drive entanglement, helplessness and religiosity, helplessness and finitude, and helplessness and transience categories were analyzed from the psychoanalytic theoretical framework using the content analysis method. The analysis allowed us to think of admission to intensive care as an experience of (re) updating the initial helplessness that demands from the subject-patient and the psychologist/psychoanalyst to deal with issues that go back to castration and finitude. Faced with the threat to life and the sources of suffering highlighted by Freud, the hospitalized subject makes use of some palliative measures to try to alleviate their anguish: religiosity, attachment to family memories, reflection on their own life, and fantasies about the return home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Just as there is an instant of seeing, a time for understanding and a moment of concluding in Lacanian theory, there is also an instant of obeying, a time of indignation and a moment to rise up. Lacan introduces these logical times to think the place of the Other. In this paper other logical times will be introduced to think the place of the coronavirus in our reality. The coronavirus and its pandemic have caused a series of subjective responses to anguish such as obedience and indignation; the proposal in this paper is that there is another way, a way out of that anguish through the act of rising up with the others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La réactivation des représentations d'attachement au cours de la grossesse peut amener à une recherche de soutien alternatif, sur Internet par exemple. En effet, les spécificités des échanges en ligne facilitent cette recherche de soutien. L'état émotionnel (anxiété, dépression) de la femme enceinte pourrait aussi être lié à un usage d'Internet centré sur la grossesse. L'objectif de cette étude est d'explorer les associations entre l'usage d'Internet concernant la grossesse par les futures mères, leur style d'attachement, leur perception du soutien social et leur niveau d'anxiété et de dépression. Cette étude a été menée auprès de 28 femmes enceintes primipares, au dernier trimestre de grossesse. L'usage d'Internet en lien avec la grossesse, le style d'attachement, le soutien social perçu, le niveau d'anxiété et de dépression ont été évalués par autoquestionnaires. Des analyses de corrélation et de comparaisons de moyenne ont été réalisées. Les résultats montrent une association significative entre un style d'attachement craintif et l'usage d'Internet pour la recherche d'informations. Le score de dépression est significativement associé à l'usage d'Internet pour la recherche d'informations en lien avec la grossesse et pour des conseils et réduire les affects négatifs. Le besoin de réassurance caractérisant l'attachement craintif pourrait se traduire par une multiplication des recherches de sources d'informations pour gérer les questionnements liés à la grossesse. Le lien entre la dépression et l'usage d'Internet interroge néanmoins sur les effets de cet usage sur les symptômes dépressifs. The pregnancy of a first child is a life event with a strong emotional impact. Like any life event, pregnancy is a time when the need for comfort and support can be increased. The issues related to attachment will be reactivated in future parents and affect the experience of this transition period. Pregnant women with an insecure attachment style would be particularly vulnerable to experiencing pregnancy-specific anxiety. Furthermore, depending on their representations of attachment relationships, future mothers may perceive their partner as more or less supportive. Faced with a lack of perceived support, expectant mothers could turn to other people. Nevertheless, seeking help and support is not always simple. The Internet could be an alternative source of support and information. Indeed, the specificities of online exchanges can allow another mode of exchange and facilitate the search for support, making the Internet a potential source of support. To face anxiety and depression sometimes experienced during pregnancy, social support is essential. It may help pregnant women to grasp the changes related to her new life. Future mothers with a high level of anxiety and depression, or with anxiety-depressive disorders, could use the Internet to find people with whom to exchange and find answers to their questions. The aim of this study is to explore the Internet use related to pregnancy by expectant mothers in relation to their attachment style, perception of social support, and level of anxiety and depression. This study is cross-sectional and was conducted among a sample of 28 pregnant women (mean = 27.10 years; sd = 3.70). To recruit participants, advertisements with a link to the survey were posted and shared on social networks. All the women were expecting their first child and were in the last trimester of their pregnancy. The participants completed an anonymous online survey. The survey assessed Internet use related to pregnancy, attachment style, perceived social support level of anxiety and depression by autoquestionnaires. Partial correlation analyzes, controlled by time prior to conception, showed a significant relationship between fearful attachment and (1) Internet use for information seeking, (2) Internet use having a perceived effect on emotions. Data revealed that Internet use to exchange and share experiences and emotions is significantly and negatively related to satisfaction of perceived social support. Finally, depression was linked to both Internet use for information seeking and Internet use for counseling and reducing negative emotions. The results of this study suggest that pregnant women with fearful attachment use the Internet to search for information related to pregnancy. This use could be explained by the fact that the fearful attachment is often associated with a higher level of stress. The need for reinsurance could then result in a multiplication of sources of information to handle the issues raised by pregnancy. The link between the level of depression and the use of the Internet to reduce negative affects suggests that the Internet can be perceived as a source of support by expectant mothers. However, the link between the level of depression and the use of the Internet for information seeking questions about the effects of this use. Indeed, the information and testimonies collected on the Internet could also lead to depressive symptomatology in future mothers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The unintentional life (La vita involontaria) is the Italian writer Brianna Carafa's first novel. It was published in 1975 by Einaudi and recently re-released by Cliquot. In our article we will study how the main character's existential anguish enters the language creating a real rhetoric of the crisis. The author, being psychoanalyst herself, wisely plays with a series of figures of speech in order to reproduce in literature the broken world of the main character Paolo Pintus. Starting from this context, we are going to analyze how the synecdoche of the "red roofs" or the metaphorical language used to describe the character's hometown, as well as the surroundings and the environment where he finds himself, manage to build a sort of meta text. For the main character's suffering, worsened by an ataraxia that seems to lead him to ruin, pours through the fictional language. The reader finds himself faced to a double text: Paolo Pintus' crisis - his intellectual and relational illness - ends up infecting the literary fabric leading to an authentic pathology of the word. The latter, being unable to transpose the truth of a suffering, falls into what's considered the worst of evils by Carafa: inaction, silence or, to paraphrase the name of Pintus' hometown (Oblenz), into the oblivion, the lack-of-being, the dissipation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the effects of the pandemic on clinical work and proposes a preliminary research based on the fundamentals of the psychoanalytic clinic. Its questions focus on two points: on the one hand, the social bond of the discourses and on the other hand, the symptomatic formations that have resulted from the event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L'angoisse excessive ou pathologique de l'enfant représente un objet courant de consultation pédopsychiatrique, qu'il soit initié par les membres de l'entourage familial ou par les professionnels de l'enfance. Il n'est guère toujours aisé de distinguer l'angoisse existentielle que tout enfant appréhende au cours de son développement de celle qui prend un accent délétère, dommageable à son épanouissement. L'article propose de se pencher sur les troubles anxieux chez l'enfant en rappelant quelques définitions et manifestations cliniques avant d'ouvrir la question de la place de la pleine conscience dans l'abord thérapeutique. La pleine conscience en tant qu'approche non invasive nous apparaît intéressante dans les troubles anxieux chez l'enfant et ce dans une triple finalité. Elle permet d'abord de mettre le jeune patient en confiance dans la perspective de l'établissement d'un lien transférentiel. Par ailleurs, cette technique contient en soi un effet anxiolytique non négligeable dont les répercussions positives dépassent la seule personne de l'enfant concerné. Enfin, comme cette première approche thérapeutique s'avère à la fois surprenante, attrayante, engageante, l'enfant accepte plus volontiers de poursuivre la démarche de traitement. Requests for advice, advice and treatment in child-child psychiatry are experiencing an exponential explosion, as seen by clinicians and those involved in childhood; it is also relayed to the competent health authorities. The child's excessive or pathological anguish is a common subject of child psychiatric consultation, whether initiated by members of the family or by child care professionals. Symptomatology is varied, multi-faceted and comorbidity frequent. However, it is not always easy to distinguish the existential anguish that every child apprehends during his development from that which takes on a deleterious accent, harmful to his development. The article proposes to address anxiety disorders in children by recalling some clinical definitions and manifestations before opening the question of the place of mindfulness in the therapeutic axe. We propose to repeat the main elements of several concepts such as anxiety, anxiety and stress. In general, anxiety can be understood as a painful sensation of deep discomfort, determined by the diffuse impression of a relatively vague but imminent danger, before which one remains unarmed and powerless. It is usually accompanied by neuro-vegetative changes. Anxiety will be understood differently depending on the theoretical reference. Anxiety is manifested by distress, a sense of threat or fear. It also corresponds to an emotional state characterized by a feeling of worry, insecurity, marked by the apprehension of an indeterminate danger before which one feels powerless. Thought holds a prominent place. There is also the notion of stress which reflects all the responses to pressures and constraints arising from the environment. The body mobilizes psychophysiologically to escape danger. The anxiety disorder manifests itself in very different ways depending on the children, their age, their personality and the type of disturbance. Let us emphasize at the outset how anxiety is potentially masked by hyperactivity, agitation or other behavioural disorders. Anxiety disorders are often associated with learning difficulties. The recommended management of anxiety disorders in the first instance is psychotherapy. It may even constitute the only treatment or be associated for example with the psychopharmacological approach, depending on the severity of the disorder, this without neglecting probable interventions in the contextual reality of the child concerned. In fact, let us recall how much the young subject is dependent on his environment and how much interference with it can seriously affect his psychic state. If the symptoms are intense, disabling and/or psychotherapy is not sufficient to contain them, a psychopharmacological treatment may be considered, combined with other therapeutic axes. The axis of the medication should also be used in the presence of a harmful comorbidity. Given the neuro-vegetative effects of anxiety disorders, before resorting to psychopharmacological treatment, we recommend that we favour the relaxation techniques often appreciated by the child. Let's continue thinking about treatments by focusing on a specific approach. The intervention programs using so-called mindfulness meditation aim to encourage the individual to welcome his thoughts, emotions and sensations. In a general way, mindfulness allows us to devote all of our attention to the present moment without passing judgment in order to be in the most contact with our lived experiences. Beyond a fashion effect, mindfulness provides a promising perspective for acting on the signs of anxiety, stress in children and adults, regardless of the presence of mental health disruption in the subject. This being the case, the effectiveness of this practice in anxiety disorders by improving the symptoms of the child is now recognized. This technique has a positive influence on several other variables such as creativity, cognitive flexibility, concentration in learning. On the other hand, mindfulness visibly increases social abilities. There is a correlation between regular participation in meditation exercises and improvement of the child's well-being and a decrease in anxiety symptoms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to investigate the meta-psychological notion of helplessness (Hilflosigkeit), seeking to elevate it to the status of concept. The condition of the subject's existence in the civilization is supported by a condition of psyche helplessness. The Freudian message is that coping with helplessness is fundamental, and a 'management of helplessness' is necessary either through creative destinies (its acceptance) or through fateful destinations (its avoidance). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé Objectifs Dans cet article, nous partons de la considération du contemporain comme un post-contemporain . Tout comme le présent, le contemporain est insaisissable, et requiert l’après-coup pour en permettre l’analyse. Notre premier objectif vise à aborder notre époque post-contemporaine comme étant marquée par la radicalité , celle-ci étant caractérisée par une recherche de l’origine se manifestant par un retour du religieux, associé à l’émergence d’une angoisse néantisante. La solitude est une caractéristique de cette position radicale, engendrant une problématique de l’altérité qui renverse l’angoisse en haine, que ce soit de soi ou de l’autre. Le sujet post-contemporain passe en effet à l’acte face à un lien social et une culture qui n’arrivent plus à le soutenir. Notre deuxième objectif est de montrer que l’effet de cette position radicale amène le sujet à utiliser son corps comme seule voie d’issue. Devenant une extériorité organique , le corps vient représenter l’insupportable du sujet qui, pour sortir de l’angoisse renversée en haine, s’exclut de son corps propre. Enfin, le troisième objectif, vise à définir le sujet radical libre comme étant un produit de la société « libérale », qui cherche à fabriquer sa liberté à chaque instant. Méthode Notre méthode emprunte les voies de la clinique. Nous partirons de deux champs cliniques contrastés, d’une part, les passages à l’acte meurtriers ou suicidaires, d’autre part, les actes de passages d’un genre à l’autre. Résultats Les passages à l’acte et les actes de passages prennent en compte des sujets, radicaux libres , qui façonnent leur propre corps ou le corps de l’autre comme si c’était le leur. Discussion Nous discuterons les points de convergence et de divergences entre ces deux situations. Conclusion Notre conclusion montre que l’acte sur le corps de l’autre et l’acte sur son propre corps se rejoignent : le passage à l’acte meurtrier ou suicidaire cache le souhait d’un acte de passage, toutefois impossible à actualiser ; l’acte de passage d’un genre à l’autre requiert un passage à l’acte parfois insupportable à assumer. Chez celui qui vise un acte de passage, il faut chercher le passage à l’acte. De même, chez ceux qui passent à l’acte, il faut espérer restaurer, dans l’après-coup, un possible acte de passage. Objective The starting-point of this article consists in considering what is contemporary as being post-contemporary . Like the present, what is contemporary is something that cannot be pinned down. It requires hindsight in order to analyse it. Our first objective is to approach our post-contemporary age as being characterised by radicality. This takes the form of a search for origins, which shows up in a return of the religious, alongside the emergence of an anguish reducing things to nothingness. Solitude is a characteristic of this radical position, raising the issue of an otherness that turns anguish into hatred, whether of oneself or of the other. Indeed, the post-contemporary subject acts-out when faced with social ties and a culture that can no longer uphold him. Our second objective is to demonstrate that the effect of this radical position leads the subject to use his body as the only way out. Having become an external organism , the body comes to represent that which is intolerable for the subject. In order to escape anguish turned into hatred, the subject excludes himself from his own body. Finally, the third objective is to show how the free radical subject is a product of ‘liberal’ society, seeking to create his freedom at every moment. Method Our method uses clinical practice. We work from two contrasting clinical fields; on the one hand acting out in the form of acts of murder or suicide, on the other hand acts of passage from one gender to another. Results Acting out and acts of passage both relate to these free radical subjects who shape their own body, or who shape the body of the other as though it were their own. Discussion We will discuss the points of convergence and divergence between these two situations. Conclusion Our conclusion demonstrates that acts on the body of the other and acts on one's own body coincide. Acting out in the form of murder or suicide masks the wish for an act of passage, which is however impossible. The act of passage from one gender to the other requires an acting out that sometimes cannot be countenanced. With those whose aim is an act of passage, it is an acting out that must be sought. Similarly, with those who act-out, the need is to try to restore, in the aftermath, the possibility of an act of passage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé Les interventions en médiation animale mettent en évidence les effets positifs des relations avec les animaux auprès des enfants présentant des TED, TDAH ou troubles des apprentissages. Ce postulat est à l’origine de la mise en place de séances d’équithérapie par l’association « Pas-à-pas avec Alexia » depuis mai 2012 auprès d’enfants présentant le syndrome Smith-Magenis (SMS). Ce syndrome est une maladie génétique rare qui affecte toutes les aires de développement de l’enfant. Les troubles du comportement font partie de son expression clinique. Cet article présente le suivi hebdomadaire en équithérapie réalisé auprès de trois enfants avec SMS durant 25 mois. Les séances ont été menées par la même équithérapeute qui a rédigé des projets thérapeutiques individuels en s’appuyant sur les difficultés de l’enfant et les attentes des parents. Les notes prises à l’issue de chaque séance ont été analysées mettant en évidence les effets de l’équithérapie auprès de ces enfants. Il en ressortait que chaque enfant manifestait une intolérance à la frustration. À la fin de ce suivi, chaque enfant présentait une meilleure capacité à gérer les situations frustrantes en équithérapie et dans leur quotidien. Le poney n’est pas inscrit dans le langage verbal et ni dans le jugement. Ainsi, les enfants ont pu projeter sur lui leurs problématiques relationnelles qui semblent être à l’origine de leur difficulté à tolérer la frustration. Cette étude pilote mériterait d’être développée auprès d’un échantillon significatif afin de mettre en évidence quantitativement les effets de l’équithérapie sur les troubles du comportement des enfants avec SMS. Relationships with animals are recognized as positive for children with ADHD, ASD or learning disabilities, both at home and during animal-assisted interventions. Based on these assumptions, the French association “Pas-à-pas avec Alexia” proposes equine-assisted psychotherapy to children with Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS) since May 2012. This syndrome is a rare genetic disease, which has health consequences because of congenital malformations and sleeping troubles. It affects all areas of development: cognition, motor function and emotional skills. One of its characteristics is maladaptive behavior. We presented here a follow-up of three children with SMS: one girl aged 37 months old, two boys one aged 47 months old and the other one aged 74 months old (age at the beginning of the follow-up). They experienced weekly equine-assisted psychotherapy for 25 months with the same professional, a psychologist trained in equine-assisted psychotherapy. She wrote individual projects that took the child's personal issues and parental expectations into account. She analysed observation notes for each session to evaluate the effects and the relevance of this intervention. From this analysis, a feature appeared to be common in the three children, i.e. frustration intolerance which they express by tantrum for example. During those tantrums, the children could hurt themselves (e.g. hand biting, head banging, skin piking, slapping self), the pony, or even the psychologist involved. When the anger was out of control, the only way to stop it was to interrupt the relationship between the child and the dyad pony/psychologist. Without any outside stimulations, the child was able to calm himself and to “come back” with the human-animal dyad. At the end of the 25 months program, each child was able to manage frustrating events better in both equine-assisted psychotherapy and daily life. The horses’ non-verbal and non-judging characteristics helped these children to transmit their relationship issues that seem to be at the basis of their difficulties to tolerate frustration. As this equine-assisted psychotherapy was positive for these children, the program is being continued. Based on this pilot study, a wider research seems to be important to include more children with SMS in order to evaluate the quantitative effects of equine-assisted psychotherapy on their behavioral disabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the clinical experience in psychoanalysis research, this article deals with the concept of anguish in the Freudian plot. It is observed that, in a significant portion of the subjects attended, the anguish presents itself as an impossible affection of representation and that has as destination, among others, the body and / or compulsive acts not mediated by the thought. For a closer approximation of the psychic dynamics of these subjects, we try to discuss a more primitive dimension of this affection, which distances itself from the notion of signal anguish, in Freud's work. As a subsidy, Heidegger's conception of anguish will be approached, circumscribed as an affection that is distinguished from fear by its absence of object and function. In this way, the anguish is discussed as fundamental pathos, different from the anxiety and the anguish of castration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dying subjects that resort to humor, whom we shall call "humorants", question themselves and especially us. How could they possibly allow themselves such an outrage at this precise moment of their existence? When they do so, it is through the particular and rather crude form of black humor. On the basis of Freud's and Lacan's contributions regarding the question of death and of the clinical exercise of palliative care, the article addresses the expression of a linguistic jouissance on the part of subjects who are on the way to that which will forever calm their drives. The place in which the joint influence of capitalist and scientific discourse make it possible to affirm the accidental nature of death in our modern world. In this sense, "humorants" seem to be responding to the anxious perplexity of many dying patients when confronted by the traumatic real. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the narratives of the execution of Spanish humorist Pedro Muñoz Seca and of Gabriel García Márquez's character, Santiago Nasar, the article seeks to show how the sense of humor, construed broadly, can be used as a form of liberation of sexual or aggressive drives, hence its usefulness for clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Through a fragment of a clinical case, we discuss self-injury (cutting) using psychoanalytic literature, which points towards a decrease of internal tension, since this behavior embodies and authenticates an inner pain, previously not symbolized. Based on Roussillon, Winnicott, Ferenczi and Berlinck, we examine the role o f psychoanalysts, stressing that these acts only become a form of communication if the environment receives and recognizes them as such, offering them substance in its response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article aims to show how the incidence of the significant in the structuring of the subject, as defined by Jacques Lacan, is concomitant to a loss of the living body. To do so, we will approach the transformation that takes place in the Lacanian conceptual system from the seminar on anguish: from the body of the mirror stage to the body restored to its anatomical particularities. In this course, we will show how the unary trace is placed as a body mark that precedes the significant, since it requires three times to be assimilated. In addition, we will deal with the extraction of the object "a" and its relation to the anguish, insofar as this affection becomes the cause of the loss, and not as the effect of castration. We are interested in pointing to the presence of the object at a certain moment of the subjective constitution in which we would have only the pulses not integrated in the mirror image. These instinctual objects, which aim only at enjoyment, coexist independently of any organization or chronology, are not socialized or shareable by culture. Thus, we question the existence of these nonsignifiable objects side by side with the objects covered by the phallic function. The phallus as a signifier of the object loss signals desire. However, something subsists beyond desire, producing anguish and requiring new subjective and instinctual arrangements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a reflection on possible relationships established between anxiety and the impact of social norms on subjectivities. Nowadays, capitalism, combined with modern science is characterized not only by the authoritative definition of economic policies, but also by gestionais mechanisms that regulate and affect the constitution of individuals, encouraging the emergence of different forms of distress manifestation, such as stress, panic, helplessness, trauma and depression, which are particularly characterized by the silence of the subject facing the feeling of loss of stable horizons of reference, i.e., by suffering with no address, no Another. We resort to psychoanalysis and some Giorgio Agamben's ideas about the capitalism today to discuss these issues, as well as the possibilities of psychoanalysis and art to consider specific ways of confronting these civilizational facts that exacerbate the anxiety - placing itself against the capitalist interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fantastic tale, "The Horla" by Maupassant, allows to think central questions of our practice. Narcissism, its constitution and its failures, but also the anguish and its relations to what Lacan named object a. Once more, literature and psychoanalysis produce their crossings, their knots, their particular writings. If truth has a structure of fiction, poets, the scribes of new forms, are unavoidable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé Objectif Les représentations associées au mot « cancer » ont des répercussions sur le discours singulier des patients auxquels un diagnostic de cancer est annoncé. Ceci tient pour l’essentiel au référentiel propre qui a construit le sujet et à la culture dans laquelle il s’inscrit. Ce travail se fixe pour objectif de dresser un registre par regroupements thématiques de différentes unités signifiantes émergeant du discours de patients et de leurs proches. Méthode Les dyades étaient formées de patients et de leurs proches, venant pour un premier entretien qui devait déboucher sur l’annonce d’un cancer. La méthodologie fait appel à une analyse semi-quantitative de verbatim recueilli lors d’entretiens psychologiques. Les registres supra-thématiques étaient constitués comme suit : le trauma, la temporalité, la rationalisation, la culpabilité, les théories anthropomorphiques de la maladie, les manifestations somatiques. Résultats L’angoisse survenant dans le climat traumatique de l’annonce est par essence déliée. Cet affect libre a pour propriété d’agréger tous les éléments de la pensée rationnelle ou irrationnelle qui, dans toutes autres circonstances, n’auraient eu que peu d’importance. Discussion La question est de savoir si le rationalisme est fondé ou non en tant que système d’accès à une connaissance, c’est-à-dire, s’il correspond à une vérité du sujet en cela que c’est de la vérité qu’il souffre. Or, ce qui caractérise le rationalisme dans les observations présentées, c’est la fonction qu’il occupe, en tant qu’opportunité de liquider une partie de la culpabilité et de conférer une apparence de maîtrise face à l’angoisse, plus que l’objet qui la soutient. Conclusion Pris dans l’organique de la situation créée par la maladie et les soins, le sujet a besoin d’aide pour s’extraire d’une matérialité de la vie qui ne laisse plus place à la recherche de sens. Celle-ci ne peut se faire sans tenir compte du temps comme opérateur critique. Le temps du patient n’est pas chronologique mais appartient au registre du temps logique. Objective Representations associated with the word “cancer” have an impact on the singular discourse of patients receiving a diagnosis of cancer. This is due mainly to the idiosyncratic frame built by the subject and the cultural context in which he/she is placed. This study was aimed at determining the thematic groupings of different units of meaning emerging from the discourse of patients and their families. Method Dyads were composed of patients and their families, coming to a first appointment that was to lead to the diagnosis of cancer. The methodology used a semi-quantitative analysis of verbatim collected during psychological interviews. The supra-themed records were made as follows: trauma, temporality, rationalization, guilt, anthropomorphic theories of disease, somatic manifestations. Results Anxiety occurring in the traumatic climate of the diagnosis is essentially un-tied. This un-tied emotion leads to aggregations of all the elements of rational or irrational thoughts that, in all other circumstances, would have had little significance. Discussion The question is whether or not rationalism could operate as a pathway towards knowledge, i.e., it is a truth of the subject insofar as it is the truth that induces suffering. But what characterizes rationalism in the observations herein, is the position it occupies acting as an opportunity to liquidate some of the guilt and give an appearance of mastery against anxiety, whatever the supporting object. Conclusion Trapped in the organic distress due to disease and treatment, the patient needs help to escape from a materiality of life that leaves no room for the search for meaning. This cannot be done regardless of temporality as a critical operator. The patient's timing is not chronological but belongs to the logical time register. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It seems that there is no place for aesthetics in a conflictive context such as the Colombian one; however, local artists have insisted on hinting at those aspects of the real that we turn our backs on in order to protect ourselves. In this order of ideas, the article highlights the ethical nature of a series of Colombian video art works that "make a statement" regarding the socio-cultural conditions in which they arose. Appealing to memory, absence, and voice, it seems that these works seek to startle and produce anguish in their viewers by presenting an abundance of banal texts and images offered by the media (including the already famous signifier, "post-conflict"), which distract us from the horrors of war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, from the theoretical developments that the term affection (and its surrogate, anguish) had in Freud's work, tries to establish the character of impossibility of the field to which it refers along with the subjective consequences that may arise. Finally, it proposes a quick articulation —a proposal to be developed in the future— between what has been discussed and the great street manifestations, where a collective subject can be hypothesized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present work aims at re-examining the theme of adolescence from a perspective that makes it possible to establish a dialogue field between different forms of knowledge that consider it as a research field, as in sociology. Starting from the discrimination between adolescence as a subjective issue and adolescence as a social phenomenon - difference not always considered by psychoanalysts and other human sciences researchers - it is possible to get back to the historical inscription of the emergence of adolescence and listen to the discourse of subjects who, along their adolescent path, expose the tensions and impasses of the position they inhabit and are willing to secure in the social structure that precedes them. Unlike one could assume, the threat of seclusion affects not only those who belong to less favored socioeconomic segments, but also the so-called privileged, who face the anguish of losing the socioeconomic position inherited in the social pyramid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article tries to discuss, based on Freud and Lacan premises, the possibility of a specific anguish in women. There is neither a female universe nor a female position in an individual more referred to the manner as it is related to the jouissance (sexual pleasure); i.e., being beside no- quite phallic jouissance. The question, then, would be better asked: would there be a no-quite phallic specific anguish? The anguish in women can be experimented in different aspects; the anguish of the hysterical woman whose defense is the envy of the penis and the perpetuation of the phallic claim; the anguish of a mother who thinks about the possibility of losing her child as phallus. But the proper anguish of woman, no-quite phallic, is that which is directly related to S(A) the lack in the Other, with the jouissance experimented as infinite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Violence is inherent to human beings, it is even essential for the creation of a link with the other one, in the process of the psychological birth of the subject. The family is the place of prohibition of incest and murder where the child can learn how to manage his destructive impulses, but it is sometimes the place of his overflowing. At this point, it is about the destruction of the subject and the psychopathology of the link. Domestic violence prevails when the law of the strongest, exercised by one of the members of the family, replaces the common law of the exchange which is the basic foundation of the family as well as of the society. Child witness to marital violence attends with helplessness and thus with passivity, marital alarming scenes. It affects his psychic construction because these acting-outs meet his own destructive fantasies. Consequently, the anguishes are inescapable, but they differ according to the psychological maturity of the child, that is to say according to whether the scenes occur before, during, or after the oedipian stage. The future of the anguish will join or not to a trauma, in front of a situation that cannot be assimilated. “Identification with the aggressor” appears as the most frequent mechanism of defense, and will have long-term effects sometimes as generational repetitions, as we will show it in a clinical illustration revealing all the devastating impact of marital violence. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: In the pedopsychiatric consultations, much of children present a symptomatology, which if it''s personal for them, is related to the psychic functioning of the parent. In the light of a clinical situation, the article develops various impacts in the child confronted with the mental disease of the parent, and specific when it''s about psychosis. The impact of the process psychotic of the parent is not without effect on the glance and the attention paid to the child. The aspects of the anguish, depression, culpability, opposition, differentiation, parentification and shared psychosis are thus successively approached. The author evokes then some specific items of the treatment while discussing the questions of the framework of work, the items of the meeting with the child around the representations and of the stakes of the relation between the sick parent and the child. At the convenient time, it will be necessary to make it possible to the child to meet the parent in his reality, i.e. the personal aspects of his mental illness. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Since the first Freudian theoretical contributions on the subject's psychic constitution, we observed that the period of childhood has occupied a prominent place as one of the key moments in the development and structuring of the psychic apparatus. So, this article aims at the theoretical understanding of the manifestations of anguish and symptoms in children based on a psychoanalytic perspective. Accordingly, we present a review of the anguish and the Oedipus complex in Freudian psychoanalytic view and post-Freudian psychoanalysts such as Freud, Lacan and Zornig. Thus, we highlight the place of the symptom in childhood related to children's psychic constitution linked to parental functions, based on the complex relationship and family conflicts that constitute the symptom of the child, in order to understand aspects of parenting involved in these functions. Based on these studies, we discuss the ramifications of the issues of anguish related to the object a and the symptoms in childhood in relation to family structure. Thus, we discuss the anguish expressed in the child in a passing moment, as well as the time to order more Oedipal pointing cumin related to infantile neurosis. In short, it was found that the stages involving the manifestations of anguish and relationship with the symptom are without doubt essential processes for child psychoanalysis and also for the investigation of the elements involved in these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Moving from a research sponsored by France Alzheimer, the authors try to question the Alzheimer disease from an anthropological, phenomenological and psychoanalytical point of view. This pathology has been always considered only from a neurological perspective, but it seems to us to be more complex, since it is the whole human being to be affected in it. The relationship to the world, the fear against death, the impossibility to afford the assumption of our fragilities, the signs of our finitude through time, the difficulty to accept the experience of the being out of step of our body show that the human singularity is affected by the Alzheimer disease. The intentional arc (tension) giving life to our existence is almost broken under the weight of an insurmountable anguish. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The literary figure of no-death found in romantic English literature -- particularly in Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus and Dracula -- is analyzed hermeneutically in this article. The author attempts to explain to what extent it responds, in the myth, to an anthropological existential inquiry into the meaning of life and death, which is at the root of the anguish intensified in the modem age by the disappearance of an ideal from the realm of culture that is able to respond to the great mystery that is man. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Objective of study: Principal hypothesis. These research concerns the Acute stress disorder pathologies about the minor under 15 years old victim of sexual abuses. We argue specify psychopathologies specially phobia symptom. General objective. The objective is to create a scale of analysis about clinical interview in urgency situation with sexual abuse minors. The medical psychological context is forensic service in CHU. Patients and method: Patients. The effective is 79 minors age and sex together. All patients present a Acute Stress Disorder with DSM IV reference. Method. We use « semi directive » clinical interview. The symptom treatment follows the protocol of semiological frequency scale. These first study doesn''t use factorial or correlation support. The results are percentage. Results: For greats peri traumatic dominances appear during our research. Symptom of cognitive efficiency. It concerns the rapport of knowledge, to learning but not understanding and cognitive process. Behaviour troubles. The most important trouble is inhibition of psychosocial bind. These inhibition give up sometimes to anxious feelings with aggressive assaults. Phobia symptom. Phobia is the most important syndrome. These phobia is not simply neurotic symptom but similar as limit or psychotic pathologies. It''s morbid fears with paranoid anguish. A somatic expression. The body inscription of minor suffering translate identity disorders and alterations of representation process. Conclusion: We insist about phobia dimension with Acute stress disorder for sexual abuse to minor. These phobia is paranoid expression as research of B. Brusset in 1999. The threat of psychic breakdown, sometimes dysmorphophobia or depersonalise crisis, argue the necessity to help quickly these children. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]