Le déni de l'intersubjectivité dans les interactions précoces comme paradigme de la violence psychologique

Abstract

In perinatal and infant psychiatry we are often confronted with clinical situations without physical and sexual abuses nor manifested violence. However early interactions disorders marked by a degree of violence can be detected. This appears when communication exchanges are underlined by constraint, intrusion, impredictibility or by discontinuity or repeated micro-ruptures. These mechanisms create obstacles in the interaction mutual regulation processes which develop intersubjectivity, essential factor in infant and child development. Various modes in the relationships may intervene: for example, post–partum maternal depression or also early relational disorders. Three clinical situations during which the interactions disorders are defined, illustrate these mechanisms which generate violence. Intersubjectivity denial during early interactions represents an essential condition of the psychological violence present in these interactions. Generally our hypothesis is that the denial of our own subjectivity by the other represents the principal of psychological violence.