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Ce mémoire analyse la construction de la sexualité dans Les particules élémentaires (1998) et Plateforme (2001) de Michel Houellebecq afin de démontrer que le sexuel y est autant une façade textuelle qu’un outil véhiculant une critique. Il interroge aussi les mécanismes à l’œuvre dans les représentations du corps et de la sexualité véhiculées par la société française à l’entrée du XXIe siècle. Employant une lecture sociocritique, la présente étude s’appuie sur le concept d’imaginaire social (Popovic) pour mettre au jour la relation dynamique instaurée entre la société et le texte produit. Cette interaction donne tout d’abord à lire sous un nouvel éclairage la nature des références pornographiques venant interrompre la narration, et elle permet ensuite d’établir le fonctionnement houellebecquien de la subversion dans ce registre …
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The author presents the main results of a study undertaken by the Youth Protection Commission. The study concerns 167 youths from 12 to 17 years of age, placed in a Quebec rehabilitation centre, in 1987-88 — under the Youth Protection Act — because of their “serious behaviour problems”. The study describes these problems and the social and judicial treatment provided to deal with them. It notes the beneficial effects of the boys' stay at the rehabilitation centre, a stay that is nonetheless difficult, according to the youngsters. Finally, the author tells of their ideas and questions, and with the results obtained, she puts forward some suggestions for improving the services to assist these young people.
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AbstractMost studies pertaining to mothers and substance abuse have focused on either the effects or the environment of consumption, on children. Few concern the mothers themselves, their life path, their desire to have children, their need to develop parental competence. This article presents the results of a research on a sample of mothers suffering from drug abuse who have recently given birth. The article emphasizes the different events that marked the course of their consumption and how maternity is positioned within such a stream of events. Three major factors associated with the initiation, the continued use, the increase and the end of consumption were identified: contextual factors (family consumption, ease of access, contacts in the drug milieu, peer pressure); relational factors (lover who uses substances) and intrinsic factors (self medication, need to forget or to flee reality). The child's arrival, rarely planned, constitutes a privileged moment to reverse the stream of consumption and is a major factor in the reduction of use or its end. But, the child's arrival can also become a source of stress leading to relapses especially in a context where environmental conditions are difficult and where the mothers have little control over their future. The study of trajectories leads to a better understanding of maternal substance abuse and proposes keys for intervention.