Korff-Sausse, Simone

Construction of identity “between two” - 2023.


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Based on her experience as a psychoanalyst with children with disabilities, the author studies the construction of identity in these often extreme clinical situations. What are the psychic processes of becoming aware of a difference for which the classical Freudian model of sexual difference is not sufficient? The author then proposes the hypothesis of the invention of a new form of identity characterized by multiplicity and diversity.