Author: Zhao Xiaoming Editor: Wang Haihong Cui Guanli
Xiaoming quote ✦
No theory invented by everyone in society is as natural as the facts of the world. No result of psychological counseling can be the counselor's advanced judgment. This is universal to any scientific or unscientific theory of mind, and fair to any master of mind or beginner.
01 Does the child exist?
The child subject is mainly found in Lacan's psychoanalysis and Dordo's psychoanalysis.
Previous schools of psychoanalysis, especially traditional schools of psychoanalysis, even Lacan himself, were reluctant to admit that man had a subjecthood as a child.
Lacan believes that the time for the child to have his own subject qualification is very short, and that he is initially in the stage of integration with the mother, and there is no subject qualification.
The object relation school also thinks so.
When the child is separated from the mother, he will have the subject qualification for a short period of a few months, but soon he will be attracted to the "me" in the mirror, so he loses his subject qualification, and then is cut off by the greater he.
02 Dordo's "child subject" view
Dordo's view is different, he believes that children are born with subject qualifications.
So what's going on here?
The object relationship genre holds that a baby is in an undifferentiated state with its mother from birth until six months
After six months, the infant begins to try to internalize the mother into his own personality, and a relationship between the object and himself arises, and this school of psychoanalysis is called the object relationship school.
Dordo, on the other hand, spends a lot of time working with children and, by observing children, comes up with a different view: that children are a subject at birth.
This view of hers influenced the entire French psychological community, and even won the support of the French medical community, and was further spread to the United States, influencing the views of psychologists of many other schools.
03 Psychoanalysis in children
Is the child a person with a subject?
In fact, what Dordo believes of as the subject is a process of development.
In other words, the subject that Dordo speaks of is not a subject that is self-reliant in structuralism.
What she calls subject is a dynamic concept, meaning that children consider themselves to be a subject for a period of time at birth, and later through various interactions with their fathers and mothers, they continue to promote the development of their own subject qualifications.
However, these differences are not the real meaning that Dordo wants to tell us, and he does not want to argue with Lacan whether children have subject qualifications or lose subject qualifications.
Dordo's concept is still based on Lacan's entire theoretical system.
The point she wants to convey to us is that the child is linguistically a subject-qualified identity.
And this identity is to tell us that human children and animals are very different.
From birth, the human child tries very hard to express his feelings through language, and even if sometimes adults may not be able to understand his language, he will try to express it in language.
The above views had a huge impact on Dordo's work as a child psychoanalytician.
In other words, Based on this theory, Dordo invented her practical technique of psychoanalysis for children.
04 Dordo's practice
In fact, only by understanding the identity of the child as a subject in language can we know how Dordo's practical techniques unfold when doing psychoanalytic work for children.
In other words, Dordo gives us thought from the nature of the human child, which essentially gives the child an equal, equal identity.
This equal status means that children have equal subject qualifications in language qualifications.
In the past, the school of object relations held that the child should internalize the mother and father into his own human grid, and even the child should internalize the mirror self into his own human grid.
The object division produced by the child in the process of interaction with the father and mother corresponds to the division state of the self. This is a state of schizophrenia in the structuralist perspective of man.
The core concepts of new psychoanalysis that preceded this question have all been discussed.
05 Afterword
It is true that man is spiritually divided.
But Dordo argues that we have an integrated subject identity linguistically.
If we ignore this, we will make mistakes in psychoanalytic work with early childhood, and it will not have a fruitful effect.
The relationship between children's subject qualifications and language, as well as the specific practical techniques of how to carry out children's psychoanalysis in psychoanalysis, will be discussed in the next article.
Xiaoming quote ✦
What matters in life is not how many decades and past you have experienced, but more importantly, how many new decades and futures you can create.
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