Apport de la psychanalyse à la question de l’Addiction Jean

Freud via Lacan as a way of understanding acting out Overview of the concept In approaching the concept of acting out one is immediately faced with a problem which Sandler et al , summarize by stating: "Of all the clinical concepts considered in this book, acting out has probably suffered the

Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts: VI Acting Out

and acting out are synonymous, even though acting out is a form of repetition Nor does Freud's statement remove acting out from its clinical context 2 The choice of acting out as the translation of agieren has resulted in certain authors restrict ing the concept to acting out outside the analytic treatment situation This has led to the

WORKING THROUGH VS ACTING OUT

acting-out), thereby enabling a more viable articulation of affect and cognition or representation, as well as ethical and sociopolitical agency in the present and future Hence, at least as I am using the term, working-through does not mean total redemption of the past or healing its traumatic wounds (119)

PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN SEXUAL ACTING OUT

The fact that the acting out involves his normal instinctual need - and may, for example, intensify when his wife is a niddah - can fool people into thinking that it is simply an exaggeration of a normal drive This is why well meaning advisors will often push marriage as a cure for sexual acting out 5 The many married men with this problem provide

PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN SEXUAL ACTING OUT

The fact that the acting out involves his normal instinctual need - and may, for example, intensify when his wife is a niddah - can fool people into thinking that it is simply an exaggeration of a normal drive This is why well-meaning advisors will often push marriage as a cure for sexual acting out 3 The many married men with

194 Practice Example: a secret pact

(Eidelberg 1968) Both acting out and acting in are examples of enactment Acting out implies a regression to a prereflectivc, pic-verbal level, a belief in the magical effects of action, and a desperate need to get a response from the external world The psychoanalytic setting itself therefore encourages acting out by inducing regressive

Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through (1914)

their being fOund out; but he makes it clear that he is ashamed of the treatment on which he is now embarked and tries to keep it secret from everybody And so on Above all, the patient will begin his treatment with a repeti tion of this kind , When one has announced the fundamental rule of psycho-analysis to a patient with an eventful