This document explores the psychological impact of a mother's suicidal act on her adolescent daughter, focusing on the role of melancholy and projective identification in the daughter's suicidal attempts.
Extract
[...] Melancholy: To Be or to Have?. Cliniques 180-195. https://doi.org/10.3917/clini.022.0180 de Kernier, N. (2015). The suicidal gesture in adolescence: To Kill the Infant. Presses Universitaires de France. https://doi.org/10.3917/puf.kerni.2015.01 Freud, S. (2004). Mourning and Melancholia: Extract from Métapsychology. Societies, no (sup 7-19. https://doi.org/10.3917/soc.086.0007 Freud, S. [...]
[...] Suicide is not the simple deliverance from suffering that is too difficult to endure. Pommereau hypothesizes the falsity of thinking that the victim was unable to cope with an unbearable situation involving a third party responsible (society, the usurer, the bad spouse, etc.) or leaving no prospect of salvation. He He also asserts that the need to rationalize the act of suicide would result from 'personal and private projections where repulsion and fascination confront each other, with everyone trying to reassure themselves by assuming the right to end their life if they were ever to be confronted with extreme circumstances'14. [...]
[...] Would melancholic identification be a psychotic defense mechanism? The melancholic issue seems to pose the question of the place of melancholy in Melissa's psychic structure and her process of identity construction during adolescence in the case of her mother's death. Vauthier is interested in the link between melancholy and paranoia since melancholy raises the question of loss and lack and the consequences 'on the living of an extreme subjective position of rejection of the unconscious' 8as what seems to be playing out in Melissa and what we will attempt to untangle during the projective tests. [...]
[...] Presses Universitaires de France. Birraux, A., Lauru, D., & Collectif. (2012). The Enigma of Adolescent Suicide. Albin Michel. Chabert, C. (2003). Melancholic Feminine. Presses Universitaires de France. https://doi-org.merlin.u-picardie.fr/10.3917/puf.chabe.2003.01 Corcos, M. (2013). [...]
[...] Two paradoxical desires are opposed, that of identifying with her mother and that of detaching herself. Through her self-destructive and addictive behaviors, Melissa identifies with her mother, and identification with melancholy prevents the grieving process from taking place III. Refusal of femininity and ambivalence towards the mother The mother-daughter bond invites to highlight the melancholic model of psychic functioning15, notably in the case of mourning in relation to a passage to act where the suicide does not fail but the symbolic separation, it does A. [...]
