Talpin, Jean-Marc

The reception of the text at the group's risk - 2019.


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Writing workshops are both places for the creation (production) of texts and places for the reception of texts during the reading phase. This second dimension will be developed here specifically in relation to a presentation of the theorisations of, and psychic issues involved in, this reception, on the one hand, and with reference to a writing workshop in a non-therapeutic setting on the other. The reception of texts in a group situation involves a dimension of mirroring, of diffraction of the mirroring effect in group transference movements. It also highlights, because of recourse to the voice, the richness and limits of writing as well as the affective issues that are more or less linked up with the word- and thing-presentations conveyed by the text. By way of conclusion, this group situation also highlights the processes of creation specific to each person and to the group, in particular concerning the period of creative seizure ( saisissement créateur), a period of the unconscious and of drive activity.