La douleur peut-elle être perçue et cherchée plus « vivement » dans une culture postmoderne en perte de sens ?

Abstract

The perception of the pain, and the “work of pain” which ensues from it, bound to the notion of trauma–hurt to subjects presenting a thought operating and a depression main part, sign a physical fixation for an object psychically not representable. These subjects have a real incapacity to perceive and symbolize the affect of psychic suffering as well borderline teenagers (self-harm). Having reminded the Freudian and psychoanalytical conceptions on the pain, the operating functioning and the self-harm behaviour, the authors will refer to certain sociological works describing certain characteristics of our post-modern social, cultural and linguistic organization to underline the impact of these in the increase of the behaviour of search for the pain to borderline patients or with the perception of the pain as only sign of a mental suffering impossible to symbolize. So, we notice that the loss of symbolic structuring of our post-modern civilization, the ascent in power of the thought operating, the social and domestic disorganizations, have a real cost on our contemporaries psychic and somatic health, particularly on the most numerous among them as teenagers.