GERARD BONNET : REMORSE. FROM FREUD’S SELF-ANALYSIS TO THE CLINICAL TREATMENT OF ADOLESCENTS
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The author takes off from a prior work relating the
place of remorse in the analysis of an adolescent who became a murderer
in order to reread and re-interpret the place of this affect in the texts
where Freud speaks of his self-analysis. He points out an implicit theory,
which ties in with the explicit theory, barely sketched out, and emphasizes
in particular the active and positive side of this affect most often presented
as a handicap. He then shows the different faces that remorse can assume
in the treatment of the adolescent, working with the principle characteristics
pointed out in the preceding discussion, so as to facilitate its detection,
its being taken into consideration, and its evolution. This study also
seeks to help better differentiate the major affects and to show how to
position ourselves when one of them appears central and dominant, whether
it be shame, guilt, sadness, or remorse. |
Key-words Act, Affect, Ambivalence, Self-analysis, Scopic drive, Remorse. |