Citation

Bourrat MM. Neuropsychiatr. Enfance Adolesc. 2002; 50(6-7): 429-433.

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(Copyright © 2002, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

Excitement appears to be the central axis of the personnality organisation for numerous children seen in consultation. Behind apparently opposite behaviours, going from a great agitation to an almost complete inhibition, the mecanisms are similar: they express theirs affects and psychical movementsat once, by theirs bodies and their motivity, by behaviors and not by mental working out, almost directly, without psychical elaboration. Before using words, these children need to experience, to live situation, emotion and by these experiences to be able to represent them to themselves. The excitation is not rejected but on the contrary, becomes the mainpivot of the treatment, being in the heart of the psychoanalytic work of group. Its main function is "to reanimate", to lay out way to representation and symbolisation, i.e; the indispensable premonitory of the mind-mecanisms. The excitation used by the therapists, is not a cause of desorganisation, but permits the ego- structuration and the return to ambivalence. It is the only way to elaborate psychically a transition area witch can ensure a non collusion between fantasy and reality, and thus which can limit the resort to a kind of violence destroying wether the subject or the object.