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100 1 0 _aGénuit, Philippe
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245 0 0 _aThe Erinyes of Four Mothers: Subjective and Casual Clinical Observation of Maternal Infanticides
260 _c2013.
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520 _aIn this article, infanticide is illustrated through four clinical cases in the form of a story. The story concerns psychotherapy sessions for women who have been jailed for killing their newborns. This story considers the criminal deed in the context of the mother’s personal history in a transference situation, where the therapist emerges. The contingent analysis of the story outlines the sociohistorical fabric around the generic and criminal feminine; a fabric without which the meaning and the arbitrariness of the infanticide would be cancelled. While we can apply an ad-hoc “psychotization” of the maternal infanticidal act, the four clinical examples show a psychopathological heterogeneity, where neurosis competes with psychosis. As for the Erinyes, the relentless hatred, revenge, and reversal ( perversio) attack the filial relationship, but paradoxically protect the criminal mother from a mental collapse.
690 _asubjectivity
690 _apartial coincidence
690 _aconfusion
690 _ageneration
690 _areal
690 _amother
690 _aspawning
690 _aAnnihilation
690 _asymbolic
690 _ainfanticide
786 0 _nCliniques méditerranéennes | o 87 | 1 | 2013-02-01 | p. 19-32 | 0762-7491
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-cliniques-mediterraneennes-2013-1-page-19?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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