Channeling frustration: the role of authority...
- Ariane Bilheran
- Oct 14, 2023
- 17 min read
Bilheran, A. «Canaliser la frustration: du rôle de l'autorité...», in Revue Santé Mentale n°281 - octobre 2023.
Summary
The psychic development of the human being, to reach maturity, is a long journey, which takes place from the earliest childhood, until psychic autonomy, understood as the ability to set one's own laws, without needing to be contained from the outside. Education has the role of leading the child out of the impulsive state. Authority is therefore central in the psychic construction of the child. After having presented a model of child psychic development taking up, among other things, the contributions of developmental psychology, those of psychoanalysis and her own clinical observations, Ariane Bilheran indicates that frustration in the child intervenes as a major and priority issue in the stage that she has called "pre-autonomy (2-4 years)" then in adolescence. Only a firm and benevolent authority can allow the child to find enough inner security to contain this impulsive life which overwhelms him at these stages of development.
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