DIET EMMANUEL: ALIENATION IN RELIGIOUS CULTS AND ISSUES OF ADOLESCENCE

The clinical treatment of cult-induced alienation shows that the latter has to do with impasses of identification in adolescence. The deferred-action of the cult instrumentalizes, within the logic of incestual control, the subject's narcissistic weaknesses, responding with perverse seductiveness to his demand for recognition.

Mots clés Alienation, De-subjectivation, Obligatory fantasmatization, Belonging to a group, Perversion, Primary narcissistic seduction.