Nicolas Evzonas

• PhD
• Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at University of Paris Cité

Résumé Contexte La psychanalyse est critiquée pour avoir favorisé la compréhension de l’humain à partir d’une norme majoritaire au détriment de l’expérience des altérités de sexe, de genre, de classe et de race. Objectifs Notre objectif dans cet article est de poser les bases d’une métapsychologie surinclusive, non axiologique et non hégémonique,...

Eager to distance himself from the clinical mistreatment and theoretical arrogance shown toward a gender-variant population, a self-identified cis-gendered male clinician-researcher narrates his experiences, difficulties, and doubts from a psychoanalytic standpoint in his interactions with a transgender adult in an institutional setting. He thus ad...

Using a poststructuralist model, this article explores the lecture given by Ferenczi and published under the title “Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child—(The Language of Tenderness and Passion).” By initially focusing on the closed structure of the text, the author identifies two types of confusion of tongues that are closely interlink...

Plutôt que d’appréhender la question trans du point de vue d’une dysphorie de genre, l’auteur explore, à partir de récits de cure détaillés, le malaise de l’analyste et le trouble épistémologique de la psychanalyse face aux individus aux identifications de genre atypiques. Ce travail est l’occasion d’aborder d’une part l’adhésion défensive au savoi...

RESUME: L’auteur conçoit le mythe de Déméter et de Perséphone comme une mise en représentation inconsciente de l’inceste primordial mère-fille et il tente de démontrer l’impensé conceptuel que cet attachement homosexuel constitue pour la psychanalyse traditionnelle, empêtrée dans des dogmes paternels et accaparée par le drame hétérosexuel d’Œdipe R...

L’auteur conçoit le mythe de Déméter et de Perséphone comme une mise en représentation inconsciente de l’inceste primordial mère-fille et il tente de démontrer l’impensé conceptuel que cet attachement homosexuel constitue pour la psychanalyse traditionnelle, empêtrée dans des dogmes paternels et accaparée par le drame hétérosexuel d’ Œdipe Roi . Il...

À partir de la psychothérapie psychanalytique d’un adolescent transgenre, les auteurs abordent l’après-coup de l’infantile à l’adolescence. En fondant leurs observations cliniques sur le « modèle traductif » de Jean Laplanche et en puisant par ailleurs dans les théories du « double lien », ils tentent de montrer comment les signifiants à caractère...

This article focuses on conflicts stemming from the vertical and hierarchically ridden transmission of psychoanalysis through the supervision process. Drawing on a Laplanchian framework, the author argues that the intromission of violent signifiers emanating from the supervisor is liable to alter the supervisee’s idiosyncratic functions and attack...

A review of French and international psychoanalytic literature reveals complex countertransference reactions toward gender-nonconforming analysands. These reactions have been denounced as normative, even transphobic, by trans* activists and researchers (Califia, 2003; Espineira, 2015; Preciado, 2021) and some psychoanalysts (Ayouch, 2015; Barkai, 2...

Drawing on Ferenczi's “confusion of tongues” paradigm, the author argues that the internalization of the supervisor's superego has the potential not only to expand the supervisee's ego (introjection), but also to repress their idiosyncratic functions and attack their thinking activity (intropression). To illustrate this argument, the author recount...

Resumen: Este artículo destaca el proceso por el cual los mensajes culturales relacionados con las categorías contingentes de género y "raza" logran infiltrarse en el inconsciente individual. El autor analiza en primer lugar la introducción del género en el psicoanálisis francés por Jean Laplanche y su expresión original con la teoría del impulso s...

This article discusses the connection between the compulsive use of toxic substances and the shortcomings of the family environment. It provides a detailed account of the author's experience with an adult patient in a psychoanalytically oriented mental health care institution in France and argues that drug abuse can be conceived as a self‐calming s...

Cet article propose une exploration des préjugés psychanalytiques vis-à-vis des subjectivités transgenres. L’auteur se focalise de prime abord sur les infiltrations socioculturelles des concepts métapsychologiques en montrant comment l’opinion populaire contamine la neutralité scientifique. Puis, il structure son argument autour d’un traumatisme gé...

Cet article propose une exploration des préjugés psychanalytiques vis-à-vis des subjectivités transgenres. L’auteur se focalise de prime abord sur les infiltrations socioculturelles des concepts métapsychologiques en montrant comment l’opinion populaire contamine la neutralité scientifique. Puis, il structure son argument autour d’un traumatisme gé...

This article highlights the process by which cultural messages relating to the contingent categories of gender and “race” manage to infiltrate the individual unconscious. The author first discusses the introduction of gender into French psychoanalysis by Jean Laplanche and its original expression with the sexual drive theory. He thus explores the a...

Given the relative invisibility of female-to-male trans identities in academic literature and cultural representations, the author attempts to provide a psychoanalytical understanding of his therapeutic work in the French activist milieu with an adult wishing to change the female gender assigned at birth. On the basis of the theoretical framework o...

RESUMO Diante da invisibilidade das transidentidades FtM (female-to-male) na bibliografia científica e nas representações culturais, o autor constrói a monografia de um indivíduo que deseja modificar o gênero feminino atribuído a ele em seu nascimento. Ele desenvolve, assim, as múltiplas violências-intrapsíquicas, familiares, sociais e clínicas-que...

Diante da invisibilidade das transidentidades FtM (female-to-male)na bibliografia científica e nas representações culturais, o autor constrói amonografia de um indivíduo que deseja modificar o gênero feminino atribuídoa ele em seu nascimento. Ele desenvolve, assim, as múltiplas violências —intrapsíquicas, familiares, sociais e clínicas — que partic...

Violence pushing towards Manhood: clinical approach of a trans-masculine subjectivation In addressing the FtM (female-to-male) trans-identities in the scientific bibliography and in the cultural representations, the author structures the monograph of a subject wishing to modify the feminine gender they were assigned at their birth. They spread mult...

Sylvie Le Poulichet continue à affiner l'exploration des registres de l'informe en psychanalyse dans son dernier ouvrage. Elle érige ainsi en art la communication entre la métapsychologie et l'écoute qui met en suspens le déjà su pour laisser émerger l'inconnu à chaque fois sin-gulier issu de la rencontre entre deux « je » palimpsestes. Une écritur...

This article explores through a psychoanalytical lens the character of Achilles in Homer's Iliad, the matrix behind the Western conception of heroism. The contribution reveals the psychological link binding the words and acts of the most valiant of warriors in Antiquity, which is situated in myth and termed “the Eros of the absolute.” The paroxysti...

This essay draws on analytic concepts and artistic examples in order to explore murder as the ultimate fate of jealousy. The paper first explores two seemingly neurotic forms of possessive fury that result in a crime of passion. Both cases probe the criminal potential of a supposedly normal subject and question the frontiers of narcissism and self-...

Désireux de s’émanciper de la maltraitance clinique ainsi que de l’arrogance théorique à l’égard d’une population aux identifications de genre atypiques, l’auteur de cet article se propose de restituer son expérience, ses épreuves et ses doutes, à partir de l’écoute offerte par un adulte confronté aux problématiques transidentitaires. Il aborde ain...

In Analysis: Revue transdisciplinaire de psychanalyse et sciences

This article explores through a psychoanalytical lens the character of Achilles in Homer's Iliad, the matrix behind the Western conception of heroism. The contribution reveals the psychological link binding the words and acts of the most valiant of warriors in Antiquity, which is situated in myth and termed “the Eros of the absolute.” The paroxysti...

This paper calls upon psychoanalysis as a means of exploring murder as the ultimate fate of jealousy, through artistic expressions in both literature and film. First, we shall look at two neurotic versions of possessive fury resulting in a crime of passion, one in a woman and the other a man. Then, we will examine psychotic criminal jealousy from t...

Il s’agira, dans cette contribution, de mettre en « écho » les théorisations psychanalytiques et les dramatisations artistiques autour des expressions pathologiques de la jalousie. Des romans, des nouvelles, des pièces de théâtre et des films, anciens ou contemporains, mettront à l’épreuve les conceptualisations issues des textes fondateurs de Freu...

Cet article explore à partir d’un modèle de lecture poststructuraliste la communication de Ferenczi publiée sous le titre « Confusion de langue entre les adultes et l’enfant ». En se focalisant de prime abord sur la structure close du texte, l’auteur dégage deux types de confusion de langue étroitement liés : entre les adultes et l’enfant et entre...

Résumé Objectifs À travers la restitution d’un récit clinique, nous tentons de saisir comment la prise compulsive de toxiques s’articule avec la défaillance de l’environnement familial. Nous essayons par ailleurs de démontrer la pertinence de la prise en charge des addictions chez les sujets psychotiques dans l’espace multiréférentiel de la psycho...

This contribution explores the themes of fantasy underlying “Eros the Harvester” (“Θέρος-Ἔρος”), a short story by modern Greece’s most emblematic prose writer, Alexandros Papadiamantis. A close reading of the eventful love affair depicted in this story, subtitled “A May Day Idyll,” uncovers the dramatic consequences of consummation and introduces t...

The present contribution proposes to explore some literary depictions of monastic life in the work of Modern Greece’s national writer Alexandros Papadiamantis. Contrary to the orthodox critics, who have imposed a univocal theological approach of his artistic universe, and focusing on his novel The Merchants of Nations [Οἱ Ἔμποροι τῶν Ἐθνῶν], which...

The present contribution offers a close reading of Alexandros Papadiamantis’s first-person short story «Ὑπὸ τὴν βασιλικὴν δρῦν» (“Under the Royal Oak Tree”), published in March 1901. Behind its euphoric atmosphere and carefree façade, which relates a child’s attraction to a majestic tree, this less-than-realistic tale conceals a poignant struggle b...

Achilles, the Homeric Hero with a Taste for the Absolute This article explores the character Achilles, as presented in the original ancient Greek text of Homer’s Iliad. Homer’s poem is the literary matrix of the Western conception of heroism and this paper sheds light on the psychological connection binding the words and acts of the most valiant of...

Despite his appellation as a ‘Saint of Greek Literature’, Alexandros Papadiamantis, a writer of national acclaim in Modern Greece, produces texts describing extraordinary passions as well as uncontrolled and uncontrollable drives. This article explores the emotional dynamics underpinning his work in light of four themes: the covert Hedonistic gaze,...

Alexandros Papadiamantis, a Passionate Saint Despite being referred to as a ‘Saint of Greek Literature’, Alexandros Papadiamantis, a writer of national acclaim in Modern Greece, produces texts which describe extraordinary passions and uncontrolled and uncontrollable drives. This article explores the emotional dynamics underpinning his work in the l...