Aims

- to introduce the students to the psychosociological, psycho-clinical and psychoanalytical approaches of social (models, norms, ideals, myths, …) and individual (projects, phantasms, expectancies, desire…) representations about family, couple and sexuality. Reflexion on the reality of the collective and individual practices during crises, degenerations and reconstructions of the considered representations.

Main themes

Definition of the object, as social and scientifical " construction " and " problem ". Models and methods of objectivation and of subjectivation.
Psychosocial approach : familial institutions and systems of kinship : the passing from the " natural " to the " cultural " ; identities of the families and the couples and identification inside the family and the couple ; the knowledge and the ideals of sexuality : norms, disorders and perversions.
Psychoclinical approach of families and couples : the families and couples in crisis, in degeneration, in reconstruction ; the families and couples as systems (interindividuality, myths and familial secrets) ; the families as histories and life stories (interpersonnality, the event, the choice of the partner, the passion, the agreement and the love work) ; the effects of the unconscious structure in the families and couples (intersubjectivity, repetition, act and responsibility).
Psychoanalytical approach of sexuality : the real in question : objective and psychic realities and the registers of reality ; the construction of reality and the body as the place of the sexual reality ; articulation between the drives and representations : fate of the drives, law of Desire and abuses of pleasures ; familial complexes, insitution of the Law, maternal role and paternal function.

Content and teaching methods

Lectures and interactive exchanges : introduction of reflections and debates on the themes tackled.

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