Remy Potier

Université de Paris · Institute of Humanities, Sciences and Societies

This paper outlines a psychoanalytic contribution to a growing research field in psychiatry: that of psychotic vulnerability, and the related neurogenetic modeling of schizophrenia. We explore this contribution by focusing on recent studies concerning a neurodevelopmental disorder, the 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome – which comprises DiGeorge syndr...

Background: In Usher syndrome, deafness is congenital and blindness is acquired. Therefore, the progressive loss of one of the two senses forces individuals with this syndrome to reorganize their everyday tasks and relationships, creating new strategies to communicate, access information, and move within a given space. This reorganization can inter...

Current psychological research on contemporary medicine, and in particular genetics, often targets the underpinnings of patients’ attitudes and behaviors with respect to biomedical knowledge and healthcare practices. But few studies approach these underpinnings as manifestations of the unconscious, while so doing could (in particular) help understa...

Résumé L’article propose de soulever certaines questions cliniques et épistémologiques posées par la notion de vulnérabilité psychotique, dans le champ de la psychopathologie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent. La vulnérabilité s’est en effet constituée comme un paradigme majeur de la santé mentale contemporaine, suscitant un nombre considérable de rec...

Faith tested by the group This article reports on group issues involved in the multi-focal care given to an adolescent within the Association OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants-Children’s Welfare Agency). We question the notion of faith in a therapeutic support group of teenagers. The question of faith is thought like an obstacle to the care proces...

We contribute to inquiries about the visibility of globalized psychoanalytic research in the digital era (cf. Stepansky 2009) by adopting a comparative perspective on a specific geographic area of historical importance for psychoanalysis: France. The largely digital globalized psychoanalytic research field relies on standard bibliometric measures o...

A multi-perspective approach on a genetic neurodevelopmental pathology. Epistemological and clinical reflections on the psychic impact of the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome This paper brings together the perspectives of genetic medicine, child psychiatry and psychoanalytical psychopathology to characterize, from a psychoanalytic standpoint, the psychic...

Hearing loss has been identified as a risk factor for cognitive decline in older adults. Additionally, greater degrees of hearing loss have been linked to a greater risk of dementia. An intermediate stage between normal aging-related cognitive decline and dementia is Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), which can come in the form of amnestic, executive...

We draw on genetic medicine, child psychiatry and psychoanalytic psychopathology to characterize, in a psychoanalytic fashion, the psychic impact of a genetic developmental disorder with a strong neurological component: the 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome. We first specify its nature, and in particular the specific relational style of the children w...

RESUMO Esta contribuição examina possíveis interações entre as neurociências e a psicanálise. O objetivo é especificar as particularidades da investigação psicanalí-tica sobre a tecnologia, especificamente a respeito de imagens do cérebro, e ques-tionar suas premissas básicas. Levando-se em conta todos os aspectos deste proce-dimento médico, descob...

This contribution examines some possible interactions between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis. The goal is to specify the particularities of psychoanalytic investigation of technology, specifically regarding brain imaging, and question its basic assumptions. Taking into account all the aspects of this medical procedure, we find that interdisci...

Social networks such as Facebook have seen an increasing amount of use. This use brings out the best and the worst in Internet users and, therefore, merits particular and specific attention that takes into account the virtual character of these experiences. The concept of the narcissism of small differences is altogether pertinent when it comes to...

Facebook Put to the Test of Difference. Avatars of the Narcissism of Small Differences. Social networks like Facebook have an ever-increasing number of adepts and, while they are used in ways which bear witness to both the worst and the best in humankind, they also demand a degree of analysis from the psychoanalytical point of view. The concept of...

Les techniques d’imagerie medicale ont investi le langage contemporain sur le corps et modifie la perception que nous en avons. Un transfert s’opere du corps reel vers un corps construit, autre, qui nous est et nous demeure etranger. Psychanalyste, Remy Potier montre comment l’image de soi peut etre mise a l’epreuve par l’imagerie medicale.

Modern art offers us a singular and revealing perspective on the body and the way it is experienced today. Based on this interest in the body, the latter's virtualization has also become a source of artistic inspiration. To present this virtual body, artists sometimes use images produced by medical imaging technologies. The actualization of the vir...

Modern art offers us a singular and revealing perspective on the body and the way it is experienced today. Based on this interest in the body, the latter's virtualization has also become a source of artistic inspiration. To present this virtual body, artists sometimes use images produced by medical imaging technologies. The actualization of the vir...

L’art contemporain offre un regard singulier et revelateur concernant le corps, tel qu’il est aujourd’hui vecu. A partir de cet interet porte au corps, la question de la virtualisation de celui-ci est egalement devenue source d’inspiration. Des artistes se saisissent ainsi d’images vehiculees par la medecine a travers l’imagerie pour mettre en scen...

The ‘Clash’ of Ideals. What the Cinema Tells us about the Identity of Martyrs The question of ideals is more relevant today than it has ever been. Tragic figures haunt our cinema screens and set us thinking, offering the spectator a cathartic experience which must be measured by the yardstick of contemporary society. This article raises the questio...

The internet is a fascinating source of study for anthropologists today, for its virtual dimension brings with it a whole host of new usages, social relations and processes. Some of these vehicle pathologies, of which Second Life is an eloquent example, in that it creates a virtual environment in which both ‘better and worse’ are possible. This art...

This article examines some possible interactions between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis, in order to specify the particularities of psychoanalytic investigation of technology, specifically regarding brain imaging, and question its basic assumptions. Taking into account all the aspects of this medical procedure, we find that interdisciplinary...

By becoming techno-scientific, today's medicine offers new representations of the body in the social space, also changing the subject’s relationship to his own body image. The importance of this dimension invites us to take a closer look, with the help of psychoanalysis, at the different perspectives on medical imaging, in order to show the necessi...

Body Image in the Light of Medical Imaging Cutting-edge medical techniques, of which medical imaging is a keystone, are intimately linked to social representations of the body. How today can we consider body image without taking into account the influence of medical advances in this field ? Our everyday vocabulary is steeped in medical language and...

The stakes at play in writing the history of psychoanalysis are part and parcel of the specificity of its scientific nature. It is doubtless with an aim to pursuing the unending task of demystifying idealising tendencies, that the history of psychoanalysis, however fragmentary it may be, manages to fuel analytical research. The academic particulari...

Writing the History of Psychoanalysis in the Face of Fragmentation The stakes at play in writing the history of psychoanalysis are part and parcel of the specificity of its scientific nature. It is doubtless with an aim to pursuing the unending task of demystifying idealising tendencies, that the history of psychoanalysis, however fragmentary it ma...

The fact of restoring medical imaging in a virtual dimension interrogate about ethics. Within those technical plans, the consequences of image are frequently obscured by the medical investigation as such. Therefore by enquiring about his power, what is at stake through the various observation on it, the ethical interrogation can be spread out as a...

Starting from the interest for new technologies and for what they bring to the new practice of teenagers on the Internet, we will question the implication of blogs in friendly exchanges. Teenagers from 12 to 17 years old attest to their use of skyblogs and show how these take part in « real » friendship. The conundrum of forming lasting bonds of fr...

Follow the « pattern » of youth in W Gombrowicz’s work, which shows the specific nostalgia of the adult gaze upon time that for him has passed : youth. He reveals the difference through which he grasped that event. Far from restoring the « genital archaic » present in the process of « sexual differentiation », it is in the indifference of gender th...

Immaturity is a theme close to the heart of Gombrowicz, who sees it as form of passionate, youthful incompletion. By setting this aesthetic form in the place of his ego-ideal he devotes nearly all his novels to the theme. Ferdydurke is interesting in this light, as it is an autobiography over-brimming with fantasies and that shares with the rea-der...

The Case for Immaturity. Immaturity is a theme close to the heart of Gombrowicz, who sees it as form of passionate, youthful incompletion. By setting this aesthetic form in the place of his ego-ideal he devotes nearly all his novels to the theme. Ferdydurke is interesting in this light, as it is an autobiography over-brimming with fantasies and tha...