Lauras-Petit, Agnès

Grasping Words with the Body: Interpretation and the Infraverbal in Child Analysis - 2012.


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The young human being's access to language is conditioned by emotional experiences that are lived and shared with partners who have accompanied him with their words to understand the meaning. The failure of this means of integrating the bodily and the psychic obstructs what is usually the structuring contribution of the interpretation in symbolic terms in the treatment of the child. The analyst will have to adjust his technique by accepting a regression to the infant's emotions and to the young child's semiotic language. His training will be enriched by going beyond his own adult analysis, deepening his capacities to be in contact with the infantile in himself.