André, Joanne

Where it hurts, I do not suffer - 2022.


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This article offers a reflection on untreatable, intractable pain, between physical pain and psychological pain, when one silences the other. Throughout a clinical case, Paul followed in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for several years, we question what is psychically at stake in what evokes a Psyche / soma cleavage as well as the conditions of its overcoming on the side of a new access to a psychic position of passivity.