Claudon, Philippe

Infantile Psychomotor Instability: Thought in Action - 2001.


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The author proposes a reflection about infantile psychomotor instability based on two theoretico-clinical axes. First, the idea of a bodily representation of specific action, intricated in the acting-out of instability (to explain motor symptom invasion and its perpetuation). Then, the idea of a problem of dependancy to the mother which has become conflictualized during the anal developmental stage. These points of view are subjected to clinical testing by the use of two projective tests: Royer’s fables and the Rorschach which respectively make it possible to evaluate the intersubjective bonds interiorized by the child and the vast domain of self representation at the heart of symbolization activity.