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SUMMARYAfter having shown how each culture allows the individual to trow his "sameness" into identity, psychosocial identity, significant for himself and his community, we explain how this cultural support fails for the elderly person reaching retirement. We then see how the impossibility of a congruent relationship between the personal identity and dominant social values provokes in the elderly person a chain of defensive and compensatory behaviour often labelled as being due to an intrinsically involutionary psychology of aging. Finally, we show how this is the lot of the members of all minority groups and that, in fact, old people have the characteristics of a minority group. 32
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ABSTRACTThis article reviews a large body of empirical evidence concerning the relationship between traumatic experiences in childhood and the development of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adulthood. Our present state of knowledge indicates that childhood trauma is one of several risks for BPD, but is by no means the main etiological factor accounting for the development of this disorder.
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Abstract“I, truth, speak”. Saying this, Jacques Lacan pointed to the truth which, from the seat of the Unconscious, is speaking, even though the subject keeps repressing it in order to know nothing of it. This article first highlights the status of the question of truth in psychoanalytic theory according to Lacan : if truth speaks, including and (maybe) especially as its own reverse, it is also stamped with a structural incompleteness which gives it, paradoxically, its potency. We then, in a second part, question anew the problem of truth in Christianity and the function of the witness. The paschal motif is here central, as it points to a truth removed from the knowledge which the witness is responsible for sharing. In a third movement, we shall question the meaning of “I am the truth” as uttered by Christ according to John's Gospel, in dialogue with “I, truth, speak”.
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AbstractDuring the analytical course, not necessarily at the end of the course of treatment, but as a resort to analysis, at the least as a first step, in a moment or another during the analytical process, the subject is called to take an ethical position. The stakes are obviously not the same in the beginning, at a decisive turning point or again at the end of treatment, meaning its conclusion. However, the subject cannot avoid this confrontation where self and self alone, decide to engage or not in the discovery of his unconcious. Clinical cases illustrate these turning points. As for the analyst, not giving up on his desire to know, he maintains the ethics of the psychoanalysis by remaining on the side of sharpness of truth and he guides his action in order for the subject to have access to its cause.