Traces of utopia in groupality, from institutional psychotherapy to the Creoleness of the group
Frossard, Matthieu
Traces of utopia in groupality, from institutional psychotherapy to the Creoleness of the group - 2022.
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The author of this article reflects on the possibility of continuing institutional care in the contemporary situation. He looks at this from the angle of the traces of utopia proposed by institutional psychotherapy and its nostalgic shadow in groupality. In order to free himself partly from the ideological field, he looks at real care practices in a service of adult psychiatry. He builds his argument around objects which emerge in the relationship between carers/patients and their destinies. This leads him to revisit the primary maternal environment and to draw on processes of subjectivation there, which can only develop with the support of another person. And if this other person is a carer, he/she will become the surface of deadly projections and will navigate in the midst of confusion. The author is interested in the possibilities of a groupality for metabolizing the deadly, for sublimating it. He decrypts the focal points of groupality in the mnemic traces of cultural ethoses which make it possible to reweave what is being unwoven. He draws inspiration from the discoveries of the authors of Creoleness such as E. Glissant and P. Chamoiseau who have given particular thought to the evolutions of the Traces gleaned and historicized after the experience of the black hole of the slave hold leading to the slavery of the subject.
Traces of utopia in groupality, from institutional psychotherapy to the Creoleness of the group - 2022.
10
The author of this article reflects on the possibility of continuing institutional care in the contemporary situation. He looks at this from the angle of the traces of utopia proposed by institutional psychotherapy and its nostalgic shadow in groupality. In order to free himself partly from the ideological field, he looks at real care practices in a service of adult psychiatry. He builds his argument around objects which emerge in the relationship between carers/patients and their destinies. This leads him to revisit the primary maternal environment and to draw on processes of subjectivation there, which can only develop with the support of another person. And if this other person is a carer, he/she will become the surface of deadly projections and will navigate in the midst of confusion. The author is interested in the possibilities of a groupality for metabolizing the deadly, for sublimating it. He decrypts the focal points of groupality in the mnemic traces of cultural ethoses which make it possible to reweave what is being unwoven. He draws inspiration from the discoveries of the authors of Creoleness such as E. Glissant and P. Chamoiseau who have given particular thought to the evolutions of the Traces gleaned and historicized after the experience of the black hole of the slave hold leading to the slavery of the subject.
Réseaux sociaux