Stories tell us about enabling ourselves to access to our own subjectivity. Awareness is a decisive event getting man in a position in the world. This facing-yourself positioning, facing the world, and entering the world of... [ view full abstract ]
Stories tell us about enabling ourselves to access to our own subjectivity. Awareness is a decisive event getting man in a position in the world. This facing-yourself positioning, facing the world, and entering the world of ideas and representations, personifies the individual and marks his identity. Together history and awareness are the basis of the process of subjectivity.
The individual therapy that will be presented is a psychodynamic psychotherapy with a young man diagnosed schizotypal. The therapeutic encounter involves the fields of representations of the two actors of the therapeutic couple. Characterizing the frameworks of thinking is crucial: understanding the representations of the patient, their positioning in the world, understanding the framework of mind of the therapist. It opens the question of subjectivity: how to let the “I” entangled in psychosis emerge, using the conceptual framework of narrativity ?
The therapist makes himself the spokesperson of the narrativity of the patient who he is deprived of his mutilated history. One can only rely on this induced narrativity to fight against resistance. During therapy, patient and therapist meet a critical transferential point centered on the question of the narrativity of origins which seems to be a necessary path in psychotherapy with psychosis.
We will explain how phenomenology can help to develop know-how-to-be skills in this encounter with the psychotic patient, in the context of the paradoxical form of transference as in psychosis. Phenomenologic therapeutic position suggests a “proto-language” to support the therapeutic space in front of the oddness and the original enigma of psychosis. The patient, bordered by the frame of the mind of the therapist, can make himself the interpreter, hopefully the hermeneut of the meaning of his life.
