TY - BOOK AU - Dupuis-Gauthier,Catherine AU - Guillaume,Jean-Claude TI - Social, generational, and traumatic obstacles to narrativity PY - 2020///. N1 - 57 N2 - 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 UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-de-la-psychanalyse-de-l-enfant-2020-1-page-207?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -