2023
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Bernard Golse et al., « Alegato por una tercera tópica. Una representación intrapsíquica del vínculo intersubjetivo, incluso antes del descubrimiento del objeto », Naciendo, ID : 10670/1.5aa7c5...
The two topographies refer to a conception of the psyche organized in psychic places, or instances, which are the fruit of a process of intrapsychic differentiation. These two topographies are obviously still relevant today and we know the heuristic dimension they have from a clinical, technical and theoretical point of view when working with established subjects (children, adolescents and adults). On the other hand, when working in perinatal care, with fetuses/babies or with subjects who are still poorly or not very differentiated, these two topographies belonging to a metapsychology that is essentially intrapsychic, their use is inevitably questionable. It is a metapsychology of the link that is necessary here, which opens onto a «third topography» (Brusset 1988, 2006; Dejours 1986, 2002; Kaës, 2009) that makes it possible to overcome the divide between interpersonal and intrapsychic. The preobjective investment of the link accounts for the outward movement (intransitive demand) even before the other is identified as such, as illustrated by the treatment of autistic children. The investment of the link refers to the «sense of being», while the investment of the object refers to the «sense of being», sense of being and sense of existing being the two facets (narcissistic and objectal) of the Winnicottian «sense of being». The intransitive demand would not be addressed to the object but it would already testify to an investment of this intersubjective preobjective link whose intrapsychic representation we are trying to track down through the concept of the third topography. The framework of joint therapies offers a fertile paradigm for testing and clinically legitimizing the concept of the third topography.