Thèse soutenue

L'épilepsie du sujet

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Auteur / Autrice : André Polard
Direction : Alain Abelhauser
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Psychologie
Date : Soutenance en 2003
Etablissement(s) : Rennes 2

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@Much has been written about epilepsy and a few recurring themes can be observed, whatever the time of references of theses writings, that is : -the frightening character of the epileptic fit, -the sacred character of the disease, -the necessity of the person who suffers from it, to hide it. Besides from time immemorial, when epilepsy has been considered, the main interest has lain in the crisis whether it is in the writings or especially in the treatment. Epilepsy was always been considered as a disease. Questioning its history and its own intelligence allows us to question its treatment. Considering it as a syndrome allows us to distinguish different phenomena which are the aura, the fit or the post-crisis state, and to use different processes to study them, starting particularly from the notion of anguish. The aura constitutes a very rich field of investigation. The aura which is not a formation of the unconscious, however operates according to the laws of the unconscious. The functions of the aura known since the Greeks but little exploited in France are enriched by a psychoanalytical conception of the observation of the aura. The aura can be considered as an "ultimate effort to avoid the crisis" or else "the last defence against the epileptic fit" ; the symptomatology is then limited to the aura. Introducing the notion of subject, as a consequence of the unconscious being a chain of significances (fr. Signifiants) allows us to put epilepsy and subject in relation going as far as to conceive the notion of "epilepsy of the subject" defined as the interruption of the circulation of the significances and the pratical consequences that an epileptology consultation will be able to name the acceptance of the real (according to the lacanian acception of the term) of the crises : "le réel de la crise" which might be followed by the patient's acceptance of these productions conceived down to their sole neurological aspect, which is in contradiction with Caelius Aurelien's statement : "l'épilepsie saisit également les sens et l'esprit".