Abstract EN:

This research articulates the important points that follow from a method including in the use of the video without observer in a psychotherapic process. The main hypothesis is that the specificity of the video device favours a return of the mental functioning to previous and precocious stages, a revival of the prevailing of the relation in the image of the fellow being and of the mother, an hypothesis where the differentiation subject-object happened and where the identity was formed. This method allows to find, at the present moment the problems of the forming of the selfimage, of the differenciation of the subject and the object and of the access to the symbolization. The absence of a concrete observer behind the camera allows a more wide and a more archaic projection which can include partial objects. Having a particular structure of space, this device provokes a return of the repression. The regression carried away by the shock perceived image and interiorizated image creates specifics defense mechanisms in reaction to the reactivated anguish and that according to the personnality structure. Some analogies with the notion of worrying strangeness should be noted. This study relies on clinical cases of children of six to fourteen years old, in a scholastic failure position. The thesis is focused upon the analysis of the processes stimulated by this use of the video as mediation to the verbal exchange with the psychotherapist. This thesis is concentrated on the reactivation of the differentiation subject-object, on the elaboration of the symbolical thought and on the device which allows the projection of the imaginary.