Dupuis-Gauthier, Catherine <br/><br/>
Social, generational, and traumatic obstacles to narrativity 

 -  2020.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The concept of narrativity has a particular position in the field of psychoanalysis because it stands slightly outside the traditional vocabulary. In psychoanalytic work with children, narrative capacity is expressed in a very variable way. In this article, our aim is to question the role and function of narrativity in children from working-class or disadvantaged social backgrounds. Whether it is a question of particular language or cultural codes, a painful traumatic past, or socio-educational deficiencies, these children, bogged down in a complex “negative”—identificatory and generational—come up against the analyst’s way of thinking, which is felt to be strange, even inaccessible. In such a context, we assume that the analyst’s work, with the child or with his or her parents, will be to co-construct a common language, so that a narrative movement and a creative symbolization can resume.