La parole et la structuration de l’expérience subjective chez l’alcoolique

Abstract: The alcoholic subject is described as an “unable to keep his word” being who would tell a lot of stories for want of being able to build history. To explain this difficulty, we will put forward a psychoanalytical hypothesis based on a fixation-regression point at the mirror stage during the oral phase. During the latter, the separation would not have come with a true word inviting the child to use the word later on to accompany his existence. During the mirror stage, the mother''s look, which could have been perceived as “frosty”, would inhibit the child. The result would be an autoerotic mode of functioning and an inadequate working out of the libidinal links that would not enable the alcoholic to think of the right distance and build history. We will illustrate the consequences of this weakness of the structuring of the subjective experience with clinical examples and the “logical time” lacanien concept. The moment of seeing (time of the drive flash) will be worked at the level of the fixation-regression point of the mirror stage during the oral phase; the time to understand (time of transitivity) would persist with the alcoholic subject making him unable to think of the right distance; the time to conclude (moment of flash of the subject of desire) would be a difficult time with the alcoholic owing to his difficulty to set a speech act and build history. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]