De l’abject à la fascination : sur les traces d’une mémoire archaïque

Context

Certain clinical encounters can sometimes saturate the clinician's listening, thus causing effects of psychic amazement. Put to the test, a split can occur in listening between disgust and capture by the image. Through this article, we will thus attempt to analyze the psychic stakes of fascination and what this process can reveal in its elaboration.

Aims

This article aims to shed light on the imaginary process of fascination, which can be set in motion during certain clinical encounters in order to apprehend what it actualizes in the transference.

Method

Our research work is based on clinical interviews and on the analysis of the stories of patients encountered. We will present a clinical vignette in this article to inform our research.

Results

This research is based on an analysis of the process of fascination, which is set in motion in the encounter with abjection, with traces of an archaic memory. Faced with instinctual unleashing, the effect of this encounter would produce a threat of narcissistic annihilation and a transference regression.

Interpretation

Our interpretation underlines how fascination can reveal an unconscious truth that is transported in the transference, which should be analyzed afterwards.