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No place for pain: the question of physical pain |
l'Information Psychiatrique. Volume 80, Number 9, 709-14, Novembre 2004, Douleurs
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Author(s) : Augustin Jeanneau |
Summary : Physical pain and psychic pain share the same defensive incapacity, but at two opposite extremes. That which, in the former case, crushes the body without any useful mentalization loses itself, in psychic pain, in a loose, insubstantial objectal endeavour, both necessary and impossible, which wounds the subject at the most elusive narcissistic point of their being. This homeless, reasonless pain will tend to find expression in various ways: in melancholia, in a type of borderline disorders or in physical pain, thus closing the loop. |
Keywords : physical pain, psychic pain, depression, melancholia |
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