[Bedtime ritual and ambivalence in the parent-child bond]. / Rituel du coucher et ambivalence dans le lien parents-enfant.

Parents express ambivalent feelings of love and hatred towards their baby. These feelings are particularly related to the child's night wakings and the resulting sleep deprivation. The occurrence of night-time childhood phobias constitutes an organiser of the child's psychic life in order to implement the separation from the mother. Parental psychic positions are therefore very important at bedtime.

[Phone sessions in Covid-19 environment: The frame and his limits]. / Séances par téléphone dans le contexte du Covid-19 : le cadre et ses limites.

To deal with the Covid 19 pandemic, health protection measures require changes to our clinical practices. Faced up with the unprecedented nature of this situation, the liberal psychotherapist is led to rethink some aspects of the framework of his practice in order to preserve the thread of the transferential relationship. The authors develop a clinical reflection on the clinical setting in a pandemic period by exploring in particular the dynamics of telephone sessions. For telephone interviews, the question of the sound envelope is central, in particular regarding the psychic function of silence. We choose to illustrate our point with short vignettes than by relying on long-term clinical cases, more likely to represent the variety of new clinical situations encountered and the questions that accompany them. This article introduces his point by recounting the plague epidemic in ancient Greece to show the impact of the environment on humans and its collective fantasy implications. Being faced up with death, contamination, the invisible enemy brings out a palpable concern. It is indeed quite remarkable that these same reactions and concerns in front of death caused by the pandemic match whith what is related by Thucydides who survived the plague, which affected Athens during the Peloponnesian War. In another context, Winnicott highlights the place and importance of the therapeutic environment. It is both a question of adjusting the framework according to the context while maintaining certain intangible aspects representing the permanence of the link and its framework. A framework cannot exist without being kept, which is equivalent to thinking of the framework above all as an internal framework, questioning the clinician about what he values and what he makes sense in his practice. In the current context, these questions arise from the perspective of a certain flexibility, depending on the human context (child, adolescent, consultations, etc.) or external context (crisis linked to a virus, etc.) showing that it is more than never question of exercising on a case-by-case basis, taking into account changes in the environment. The initial observation during this period of confinement concerns the fact that some patients contact a therapist for the first time by telephone and wish to initiate psychotherapy (during this period) when they explain that such an initiative was not possible. despite the difficulties already encountered in the past. But there is also the opposite case: patients who have no intention of continuing the work already started during this time. Thus, faced up with the injunction of confinement, they show themselves in the psychic impossibility of following the treatment by other means such as, for example, telephone sessions. In this perspective, the silence on the phone takes on a different tone; silence reveals itself to be a source of greater anxiety than in presence: the presence of bodies, of its movements perceptible as imperceptible, of a gesture that carries or accompanies the senses, breathing, the visual context of the office and of its "decor", represent as many essential elements in the usual capacity of the frame; in the absence of these basic sensory elements, silence can be experienced as a void, or even a gap in the bond, opening Pandora's box of paranoid fantasies acting unconsciously. If silence is representative of the whole framework, it promotes in this context the partialization of the clinician's body reduced to one ear and not to a whole body. Here, it is the change of framework that mobilizes the difference, established by Mr. Klein, between the partial and total object; this circumstance neo-framework could therefore call for regressive movements, undoing the silence of its symbolic function when the bodies are present.

[Iron Man: Between Confusion of Identity and Addiction to Technology]. / Iron Man : entre confusion identitaire et addiction à la technologie.

The fascination surrounding a successful artwork is linked to the fact it faces the viewer to unknown aspects of his/her own psychic life. The same applies to the comics Iron Man. Behind the armour is hiding a man caught up in the traumatic incidences of life. The hero demonstrates a psychic weakness which, despite being deep, is, however, showing universal aspects.The analysis of his misfortunes reveals a narcissistic disorder. The article intends to set out the identity confusion the Marvel's protagonist is trapped in while highlighting the addictive troublesome linking him to his high-tech armour. This article also seeks to attest the fact the symbiosis between Tony Stark and Iron Man is anticipating the evolution of our behaviour with regard to new technologies.To this end, the authors are recalling the episodes of the series. Through the analysis of the confrontational dialogue the hero is maintaining with his iron armour, they explore how the internal experiment related to the sense of identity disorder is figured out. Thus, going through the key moments of the saga, the authors raise the ambiguity of his hero. The metapsychological analysis of the actions undertaken by Iron Man reflects a little-known facet of his personality, revealing a character more tormented than he really looks. However, the point is not to "treat" a fictional man, but to observe how he can help us to understand the internal behaviour of our patients, and also our own.The Faustian drama this comic leads to is hence understood as a living testimony of our own psychic conflicts. Furthermore, the analysis gives rise to a questioning as to the risk of identity confusion the technological progress can create at a time when the Human is more and more depending on the machines he creates himself.

Parricide et violence psychique dans la famille: le rapport d'une mère / Parricide and psychic violence in the family: a mother tells / Parricidio y violencias psíquicas en la familia: una madre le dice

Sur la base du discours d'une mère venue nous consulter, nous reprenons les faits saillants de son récit sur le parricide commis par son fils adolescent sur son ex-mari. À la suite de son discours, nous explorons la psychopathologie du lien parent-enfant pour mettre en évidence la violence psychologique qui aurait pu mener à l'action du fils. Les hypothèses dynamiques qui se dégagent de ce parricide touchent à la complicité mère-fils, au deuil impossible des figures parentales et à la nature incestueuse des liens familiaux.

Based on the discourse of a mother who came to us for consultation, we take up the highlights of her narrative on the parricide committed by her adolescent son on her exhusband. Following her discourse, we explore the psychopathology of the parent-child bond to highlight the psychological violence which could have led to the son's action. The dynamic hypotheses that emerge with regard to this parricide touch on mother-son complicity, the impossible mourning of the parental figures and the incestuous nature of familial ties.

A partir de las declaraciones de una madre recibida en consulta, reanudamos los puntos salientes de este relato sobre el parricida actuado por el hijo adolescente de ella sobre su ex marido. Siguiendo el hilo de su discurso, exploramos la psicopatología de los lazos padres-niños para destacar las violencias psicológicas que pudieron contribuir este paso al acto. Las hipótesis dinámicas que emergen concerniendo a este parricidio tocan la complicidad madre-hijo, el luto imposible de las figuras paternas o todavía el carácter incestuoso de los lazos familiares.

[Terrorist acting out, narcissism and psychopathology of identifications]. / Passage à l'acte terroriste, narcissisme et psychopathologie des identifications.

The impact of wounds and narcissistic conflicts can favour a murderous acting out. From a psychoanalytical point of view, narcissistic positions tinged with cynicism and envy in particular are identified, on a background of a pathology of ideals and the melancholisation of the social link. This article looks back at the attack in Paris in January 2015 through statements taken from social discourse.

Dépendance aux images et élaboration de la violence / Dependence on images and development of violence

Dans cet article, l'auteur explore l'usage des images violentes dans un jeu vidéo en interrogeant la fonction métapsychologique des images à l'adolescence. A partir de l'exposé d'un cas clinique, une discussion s'ouvre sur la différence entre le retrait sur les objets internes et l'importance des rêveries adolescentes que le jeu vidéo prolongerait, au service du processus adolescent.

Image dependence and elaboration of violence. The author explores the use of violent images in a video game, examining the meta-psychological function of the images in adolescence. From a clinical case, we discuss the difference between the withdrawal on the internal objects and the adolescent daydreams, prolonged by the video game helping on the adolescent process.

Dépendance aux images et élaboration de la violence

Dans cet article, l'auteur explore l'usage des images violentes dans un jeu vidéo en interrogeant la fonction métapsychologique des images à l'adolescence. A partir de l'exposé d'un cas clinique, une discussion s'ouvre sur la différence entre le retrait sur les objets internes et l'importance des rêveries adolescentes que le jeu vidéo prolongerait, au service du processus adolescent(AU)

Image dependence and elaboration of violence. The author explores the use of violent images in a video game, examining the meta-psychological function of the images in adolescence. From a clinical case, we discuss the difference between the withdrawal on the internal objects and the adolescent daydreams, prolonged by the video game helping on the adolescent process(AU)

A skin on fire: the link between thermal metaphors and early trauma in a case of pedophilia.

On the basis of excerpts from the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of an adult patient convicted of child abuse, the authors suggest the hypothesis that the thermal metaphors that repeatedly appear in the patient's discourse are the marks of early psycho-bodily trauma. These are traces of the patient's burning incestuous relationship with his mother, which led to early fusion of his physical and psychic skins. In this clinical work the authors include the dynamics of transference.

Drawing on psychoanalytic pedagogy: the influence of August Aichhorn on the psychotherapy of adolescents.

The authors locate August Aichhorn's pioneering ideas about the psychodynamics and psychotherapy of adolescents in the context of psychoanalytic pedagogy in Europe in the 1920s and '30s. Strongly influenced by Freud's discoveries and theory, Aichhorn was himself a major influence on the work of Anna Freud and of many other child and adolescent psychoanalytic theoreticians, including Spitz, Mahler, Eissler, Erikson, and Blos. His technique drew heavily on the element of surprise and on the adolescent patient's identification with the analyst, as well as on the use of humor and empathy in treatment. The authors utilize brief vignettes from Aichhorn's descriptions of his practice to illustrate his unique clinical style.