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A Lacanian Perspective on Wandering and the Drives in Alzheimer's Disease.
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Evolution Psychiatrique . Dec2023, Vol. 88 Issue 4, pe33-e43. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This article addresses the issue of wandering in Alzheimer's disease from a psychoanalytic point of view, taking into account the importance of the spatial dimension in psychic dynamics. After having presented wandering from a behavioral point of view, it is discussed from a metapsychological perspective, making use of A. & G. Haddad's concept of the "viatoric drive" and as well as J. Lacan's reflections on "the wandering of the journey" and "the wandering of desire." The clinical vignette of Mr. M. in a workshop of therapeutic mediation through art helps us illustrate the unconscious psychic movements at play in walking. Three subjective markers emerge: wandering reveals the subject's difficult in orienting himself in both physical and psychological space, demonstrating a form of excitation that is not supported by the viatoric drive; "the wandering of the journey" makes it possible to relocate the place of the Other in the Imaginary; "the wandering of desire" incites the subject to repetition through the play of the drives. Neurodegenerative disease is an obstacle to wandering. Art-therapy workshops can help Alzheimer's patients with the reorganization of wandering, where unconscious knowledge would prevail over the excitation of ambulation, thus suggesting, for the subject, the possibility of a structuring "elsewhere." Thinking of mediated workshops as places of creation for the subject opens up the possibility of inhabiting one's wandering, considered as expressions of a journey and of desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00143855
- Volume :
- 88
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Evolution Psychiatrique
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 173992387
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evopsy.2023.10.002