STEPHANE BOURCET, CAMILLE ROSSI THE HYPOCHONDRIAC COMPLAINT IN ADOLESCENCE
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Hypochondriac complaints,
frequent during adolescence, are a request directed at another and address
an object of love and/or hatred. The adolescent is complaining about
the traumatic breaking-in of puberty and seeking the witness of others.
Hypochondriac complaints are carriers of a massive narcissistic investment.
The organ about which the adolescent complains condenses the whole of
the traumatized body through genitalization. The body, centered by its
multiple complaints, is a place of projection, crystallizing in the
body mass all thought, which then becomes meaningless. The hypochondriac
adolescent, prompted by a very active underground fantasy of immortality,
seems to substitute the time-space dimension of disease for the time
and space of human existence ending in death. |
Key-words Hypochondriac complaint, Narcissism, Death, Immortality |