Continuité, narrativité et identité narrative.

Discontinuity is part of life, from the birth which interrupts the almost complete intrauterine continuity, but it must be buffered by external or internal compensatory mechanisms allowing the establishment or the reestablishment of a psychic continuity alone to allow the construction of a "narrative identity" [1]. External compensation mechanisms must be ensured by the reference persons who are the guarantors of the child's history, the various relays, the different types of stories, the unofficial and official documents... Internal compensation mechanisms refer to the processes of narrativity and symbolization that must gradually take place in the child through a work of co-construction between him and the adults who take care of them. A sufficiently good maternal function, according to N. Jeammet [2], refers to the ability to articulate discontinuities to form the basis of a lived continuity, and this should be the central function of our devices. The question is not to evacuate any discontinuity, but rather to know what is being done about the fundamental and foundational discontinuity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]