Des dinosaures à Internet, les nouvelles expressions symptomatiques infantiles

Abstract

The frequency and the recurrence of certains thematics amongst suffering children questions infantil clinic: dinosaurs and their environment on the one hand, and internet and the computer on the other hand, the encouter between these two worlds being possible with software games. One can assume that the imperate use of these cultural elements would act as a revealer in certains pathologies. It would concern new forms of symptomatic voicing, as opposed to a ludicous and transitional aspect usually reserved for this type of occupation. Beyond the social and cultural infatuation for a world that has disappeared — the dinosaurs — and a world that is to come — the Web — one can question for the symbolic references of the 2 worlds that tests temporality. In this perspective, clinical texts, enlightened by psychoanalytic theory, will make clear the role of these problematics in the psychical organisation of the patient.