La clinique de la dépersonnalisation. Les destins du sens interne et la subjectivation de la vie dans la psychose. Le cas d’Aurélie

Abstract

ObjectivesThe article presents a clinical study of depersonalization syndrome. MethodWe present a typical case of this state in order to investigate the destinys of the internal sense in psychopathology, as well as the modes of subjectivation of life in psychosis. ResultsThe detailed study of Aurélie's case allows us to understand that depersonalization syndrome confronts the patient with an experience of desubjectivation where the very existence of the psychological subject is put into question. DiscussionThis leads us to question the clinical aspect of this phenomenon. Indeed, descriptions that do not go beyond a simple observation of the disorder of certain psychic functions (such as sensitivity or perception) seem to miss the point: the fact that this syndrome describes a major defect in the subject's relationship with life. ConclusionIt seems necessary to develop a clinical questioning, which, beyond traditional semiology, would pose the question of psychopathological variations no longer as deviations from the norm, but as modes of the subjectivation of life.