This important book argues that apres-coup, a concept that has blossomed in French psychoanalytic discourse, not only allows an understanding of how repressed early memories determine adult life, and how human sexuality develops, but also allows for a richer and wider explanation of our mental structures and thinking. The book outlines how apres-coup has been understood and defined by Freud, Lacan and other authors, considers it in diverse psychoanalytic cultures and explores its resonance in dream-work, sexual drives, thought, and the experience of trauma. Bernard Chervet considers that the totality of human thought can be approached according to the theory of apres-coup. It offers a metapsychological approach to the operation of apres-coup, bodily erogeneity and the regeneration of libido. Chervet's compelling work argues that the phenomenon of apres-coup allowed for the development of the psychoanalytic theories of causality, sexuality, temporality, memory and trauma. Illustrated by clinical vignettes and written by one of the leading theorists on the topic, Apres-coup in Psychoanalysis will be an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts in training and in practice.

This important book argues that apres-coup, a concept that has blossomed in French psychoanalytic discourse, not only allows an understanding of how repressed early memories determine adult life, and how human sexuality develops, but also allows for a richer and wider explanation of our mental structures and thinking. The book outlines how apres-coup has been understood and defined by Freud, Lacan and other authors, considers it in diverse psychoanalytic cultures and explores its resonance in dream-work, sexual drives, thought, and the experience of trauma. Bernard Chervet considers that the totality of human thought can be approached according to the theory of apres-coup. It offers a metapsychological approach to the operation of apres-coup, bodily erogeneity and the regeneration of libido. Chervet's compelling work argues that the phenomenon of apres-coup allowed for the development of the psychoanalytic theories of causality, sexuality, temporality, memory and trauma. Illustrated by clinical vignettes and written by one of the leading theorists on the topic, Apres-coup in Psychoanalysis will be an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts in training and in practice.

Une majorite de jeunes, engages dans des activites de catechese ou d'animation de jeunesse en Eglise, ont des difficultes a accepter les affirmations dogmatiques de l'Eglise telles que l'incarnation et la divinite du Christ. Sils reconnaissent a l'Eglise une competence particuliere pour les guider dans leur recherche, pour beaucoup elle n'est plus la seule detentrice de verite en matiere de foi ou de religion. La question de la personne du Christ se formule ainsi pour eux: "comment mettre en rapport le mystere du Christ avec les autres traditions religieuses?" ou "comment concilier la foi en l'unicite du Christ et le pluralisme religieux auquel nous sommes tous confrontes?." L'enquete de ce livre met en lumiere les conceptions de six jeunes responsables en Eglise en les confrontant a trois modeles christologiques differents, celui de BARTH, de RAHNER et de HICK. Elle permet de mesurer la distance, ou la concordance, qui existe entre l'enseignement traditionnel de l'Eglise et leurs croyances. Finalement elle tente de definir une christologie adaptee a la culture adolescente.