The Borderline, or the Impossibility of Producing a Negotiable Form in the Social Bond for the Return of the Censored

Authors

  • Lucie Cantin Freudian School of Quebec and GIFRIC, psychoanalyst and psychologist

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.3.1.1416

Abstract

How do we think the problem of the “Borderline” within psychoanalysis and the structural conception of psychic organization it proposes? As for the notion of a border between neurosis and psychosis that the case of the Borderline would simultaneously raise and call into question, we must rather recognize the failed experience of an internal limit in the subject with regard to the management of the censored that works and disorganizes the body in a jouissance that finds no path for its expression. The Borderline grapples with the work of the unbound drive, which is free and mobilized by unconscious and censored mental representations which fail to find both their mode of expression outside of the body and their meaning for the subject, as well as their negotiable form in the social space. In the absence of this space carved out in the social bond for the expression of the drive and of desire, the symptom and acting out inscribe and stage the censored within the public space, where its dramatization inevitably leads to a breakdown.

Author Biography

Lucie Cantin, Freudian School of Quebec and GIFRIC, psychoanalyst and psychologist

Lucie Cantin, M.Ps. Psychoanalyst and psychologist.  She is Supervising Analyst and Co-director of training at GIFRIC; Clinical Professor of Psychology at Laval University.  Since its foundation in 1982, she is Assistant Director of The 388, Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Young Adult Psychotics.  She is responsible for publication and training at the Center for Research and Training of GIFRIC, and Vice-President of GIFRIC.  She has several publications on the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis, the clinic of neurosis, on mysticism, femininity, masculinity, and perversion. She is co-author with Willy Apollon and Danielle Bergeron of Traiter la psychose (1990) and of La Cure analytique du psychotique: enjeux et stratégies (2008), published by GIFRIC, and of After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious (2002), at Suny Press.

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Published

2010-12-28

How to Cite

Cantin, L. (2010). The Borderline, or the Impossibility of Producing a Negotiable Form in the Social Bond for the Return of the Censored. Konturen, 3(1), 186–201. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.3.1.1416