par Bazan, Ariane 
Référence Cahiers de psychologie clinique, 49, 2, page (125-144)
Publication Publié, 2017
Référence Cahiers de psychologie clinique, 49, 2, page (125-144)
Publication Publié, 2017
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | The immaturity and state of dependence of the human child at birth confer him his ready object status when it comes to his care, implying irreducibly a level of humiliation. Sadistic acts are a treatment of this humiliation by making it possible to endorse subjectively what was first experienced passively. Consequently, the sadistic potentiality is constitutive of the human condition. The barbaric scene can give form and intensity indications as to the humiliation to which it might give the counterweight: this humiliation is thought to be the exclusion from the social pact, that is to say, from the community whose fraternal bonds are tied by a love pact. This barbarity is then defined by the destruction of the scene where this humiliation is played out – namely, the scene of civillization – by destroying its founding taboos: the prohibition of murder, cannibalism and incest.These hypotheses are discussed by testing three types of materials: (1) Milgram’s submission to authority experience, (2) Trevarthen’s research on the mother-child relationship, (3) Euripides’ myth of Medea.A logic allows us to grasp to what barbarism is the answer, even if what humiliation leads to is never determined. |
