Laurent Combres

Function(s) of Religion in the Contemporary World: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

With respect to our psychoanalytic frame of reference allowing us to study the extent of the hypotheses concerning the religious phenomenon as formulated by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, in the context of a cross approach between the accuracy of the concept of conversion and of psychic mechanisms or phenomena at stake within conversions, and based on the testimonials of subjects acknowledging themselves in the experiment of conversion, we try to understand if and how religion is anchored in our cultural era through subversive effects it may have on the subject.

Estudo dos mecanismos de escrita em adolescentes psicóticos

We study psychological mechanisms of writings practices especially in the cases of psychotics teenagers. A clinical practice in a writing work-group shows that writing is a treatment of mental illness considering as a dysfunction of social inscription. Our hypothesis articulate speech and written work as reflections of the subjects inscription in language, and social inscription as special work of linguistic mechanisms.