The question of origin and its relationship with identity among adolescents in La Réunion
Petit, Christian
The question of origin and its relationship with identity among adolescents in La Réunion - 2016.
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This contribution is in the field of psychoanalytic clinical practice. The research problem is the existence of a special relationship between questions about origin and representations of identity among adolescents in the complex multilingual context of Creole-speaking islands. The study is based on a collection of interviews with high school students, inspired by the methodology of the clinical research interview (Castarède 1983). This form of questioning is powered by a desire to know what is a repeat, during adolescence, of the fundamental question of the origin encountered during early childhood: Where do children come from? This question, identified by Freud (1907), referred to the primal scene: What is man? This study shows that the question of origin is legally instituted and has a chaotic dimension in relation to the tragic past of slavery; it projects thought to the limits of symbolization because it brings into play this impossibility of thinking between identity and origin. Superimagination, the restoration of the symbolic, and the original density of the real: these are the diverse methods of managing this question as they arise in this study with the ternary of real-symbolic-imaginary.
The question of origin and its relationship with identity among adolescents in La Réunion - 2016.
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This contribution is in the field of psychoanalytic clinical practice. The research problem is the existence of a special relationship between questions about origin and representations of identity among adolescents in the complex multilingual context of Creole-speaking islands. The study is based on a collection of interviews with high school students, inspired by the methodology of the clinical research interview (Castarède 1983). This form of questioning is powered by a desire to know what is a repeat, during adolescence, of the fundamental question of the origin encountered during early childhood: Where do children come from? This question, identified by Freud (1907), referred to the primal scene: What is man? This study shows that the question of origin is legally instituted and has a chaotic dimension in relation to the tragic past of slavery; it projects thought to the limits of symbolization because it brings into play this impossibility of thinking between identity and origin. Superimagination, the restoration of the symbolic, and the original density of the real: these are the diverse methods of managing this question as they arise in this study with the ternary of real-symbolic-imaginary.
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