La fuite des événements dans les suicides maniaco-dépressifs

Abstract

We propose to consider manic-depressive suicide not as an act but as an event, or rather as the result of a series of events in flight. The main idea is that bipolar disorders are not the differential symptoms of manic-depressive psychosis (MDP). But rather the delirium of death, the cotardization of desire, the flight of ideas, and especially the flight of events leading to the unconscious destruction of the subject. To present our theory on this subject, we must quickly evoke the new concepts we have formalized concerning the clinic of MDP, namely manic foreclosure, delirium of death, white factors, altruistic anxieties, psychic ruins and, of course, flight of events. In the diagnosis of MDP, there may well be medical data, why not, since this psychic disturbance produces real effects in the somatic, even if it is not an obligation that there should be. However, that it may have some effects in the somatic, does not mean that the MDP and the disorders attached to it depend, or come, ultimately, from an organic disorder that should be treated medically. The manic experience shows us the very singular relation of the subject to the language. It turns out that some over-evaluated or over-represented signifiers begin to have a very heavy weight against which the subject develops a frenzied and privileged ban. This is what Binswanger calls the flight of ideas, by which the subject does not shun his delusional ideas, but it is the ideas themselves and the overvalued signifiers that begin to flee by themselves. Now, the flight of events is a fourth form of psychopathological expression, in addition to delirium, hallucination and passages to the act, which I have observed in many cases of MDP and which I have formalized in several works. These events may come from the life of the mother or father and both, independently, but especially from earlier generations whose affective value is, like in a cascade, by the parent-child relationship. The inter-subjective event is the space in which the unconscious of several subjects can manifest themselves in a synchronous way and, as such, they can be shared and assimilated diachronically. In the case of a subject in whom the delirium of death fails, in whom negative hallucinations abound, but with an inhibition of the act, it is possible that the inter-subjective events in flight carry out the destruction of his life for him.