And there was silence: origins and filiation in an adopted child
Bocquillon, Mélissa
And there was silence: origins and filiation in an adopted child - 2023.
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If language structures thought, silence has a foundational role in the fullness of speech. Silence plays a part in the psychic construction of the subject, but it can also become a hindrance, a brake on narrative identity. Thus, the family secret, amnesia, silence, the unsaid, correspond to the enigma of the adopted child’s birth, to his or her original history. The filial affiliation at work in adoption can be conceived as the demand for psychic work that is necessary for generational transmissions and inheritances so that each subject can construct their own identity, and elaborate their subjectivity and destiny. The question of silence will be discussed in terms of its organising but also upsetting dimension. What part does silence play in the psychic development of the individual and in its corollary inter- and trans-generational transmission? If speech is foundational and discloses the visible, is silence reduced to what is not or cannot be caught in the nets of negation? My remarks will be based on the context of adoption, and more particularly on the process of consulting files, a “revealing” and sometimes restorative process concerning origins and family history.
And there was silence: origins and filiation in an adopted child - 2023.
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If language structures thought, silence has a foundational role in the fullness of speech. Silence plays a part in the psychic construction of the subject, but it can also become a hindrance, a brake on narrative identity. Thus, the family secret, amnesia, silence, the unsaid, correspond to the enigma of the adopted child’s birth, to his or her original history. The filial affiliation at work in adoption can be conceived as the demand for psychic work that is necessary for generational transmissions and inheritances so that each subject can construct their own identity, and elaborate their subjectivity and destiny. The question of silence will be discussed in terms of its organising but also upsetting dimension. What part does silence play in the psychic development of the individual and in its corollary inter- and trans-generational transmission? If speech is foundational and discloses the visible, is silence reduced to what is not or cannot be caught in the nets of negation? My remarks will be based on the context of adoption, and more particularly on the process of consulting files, a “revealing” and sometimes restorative process concerning origins and family history.
Réseaux sociaux