TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cornalba,Vincent
TI  - “Talking Big”: A Preparation for the Genital Phase?
PY  - 2005///.
							
N1  - 12
N2  - On the basis of a clinical situation, the author considers the role of a certain relationship with words—“talking big”—as an operation aiming to signify the impending entry into the genital stage. The author insists on the phenomenon of entrebescar (the Occitan term for troubadour-style word-weaving), a dynamic already expressed by the medieval tensons (poetic jousting), which, more or less adroitly in adolescence, relates to the significance of the issues implied in encounter. The author recognizes a series of occurrences that “talking big” emphasizes in the context of psychological work during puberty. In that context, “talking big” proceeds from a commentary related to pulsions, from a refusal of the feminine, and from a defense mechanism against the resurgence of an infantile archaic stage that the adolescent has to subjectify
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-cliniques-mediterraneennes-2005-2-page-219?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -