One day, in 1996, with a leap from adjective to noun, a new concept arose within psychoanalytic thought: the Infantile. This term remained so pertinent over time that it has become the core of the title of the 52nd IPA Congress.
Florence Guignard was the author who first formulated it in such an accomplished form, and in today's episode she draws important clinical consequences from the theoretical reflection on this concept concerning the analytic relationship and the interpretative activity of the psychoanalyst in their daily work.
The Infantile -with a capital “I”- is a limit-concept, which aims at describing a "flexible" structure, at the limits of our animality, at the borders of our Unconscious and our Preconscious system. Being the first and main means of organization of our Ego drives, the Infantile is also the place of our primary fantasies and of the mnemonic traces of our first sensory-motor experiences. It is the most acute point of our emotions and feelings in their non-verbal state.
Florence Guignard describes how the patient’s Infantile and the analyst’s Infantile are interweaving in the transference-countertransference situation, as beautifully illustrated by Mikael Vilchez artistic creation, enriched by Rhoda Bawdekar’s interpretation of it. Florence Guignard shows us how the Infantile can serve as a lever in the case of blind spots and stopper interpretations.
A clinical example of a blind spot in the analyst will be published in the second volume of “Psychoanalytic Concepts and Technique in Development. The psychoanalyst in the city”.
Florence Guignard is a Swiss and French psychoanalyst, Training analyst of the Paris Society and a direct member of the IPA for the Training in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis. She co-founded the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis.
She is an internationally renowned author and since 1970 her work, translated into several languages, notably on female sexuality and the child, has contrìbuted significantly to the renewal of psychoanalytical thought.
link to the paper https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UC1QF8Yirl8CZ5i42rWwTxvD5_qfwc5B/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112457875385152358388&rtpof=true&sd=true
This episode is available also in French
Credits
© Forbidden Denimeries by Mikael Vilchez, 2021
Visual editing and design, Rhoda Bawdekar
Music, Chopin Ballade no. 4, Op. 52
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Bernard Penot - The act of the psychoanalyst in the service of subjectivation
The place of sexuality in psychoanalytic treatment and training today - Rotraut De Clerck
Relentlessness Of Life Instinct As The Source Of Inconsolability And Greed - Salman Akhtar
Bernard Golse - A plea for a third topicality.
The distorted Oedipus complex - François Richard
Time matters - the self and its continuity. Georg Northoff.
The Self and its continuity: Out of body experience - Rosa Spagnolo.
Notes on the aptitude for happiness - Marion Minerbo
Hidden unconscious, buried unconscious, implicit unconscious - Stefano Bolognini.
Why and what is gender for? - Juan Francisco Artaloytia.
External and Internal Changes in Recent Times - Mercedes Puchol.
James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child - Mary Adams.
Michael J Diamond: The Father’s Impact on Masculinity and Its Discontents.
The Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Approach to Working with Veterans - Andrew Berry.
The Impact Of Reality On The Psychoanalytical treatment - Bernard Chervet.
Contributions for a theory of the constitution of the cruel superego - Marion Minerbo
Psychoanalysis as Politics: Aspiring to Think In the Age of Anti-Thinking - Ian S. Miller
Ludovica Grassi - Music, Silence and Psychoanalysis
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