title: [Participation and separation: reference criteria for the study of the genesis of the moral personality and its pathology].
abstract: In order to illustrate the hypothesis according to which there might exist a corresponding link between, on the one hand, a vectorial participant or separating, dynamics generating the ego's moral personality, and on the other hand, the dynamics of a relation to the proper law of a society in its cultural and religious tradition, we have firstly analysed the nature and the function of symbol as a common denominator to each of these two dynamics. This has led us to establish similar points within the "Verleugnung", i.e. the expression of the psychic phenomenon of denying reality, and within the expression of the social phenomenon of belief. These similar points then bear witness to a mode of inscription of the law in the individual psychology as well as in the collective unconsciousness and its legal expression. By applying this pattern to the analytic theory of the different identification process levels and of the gradual constitution of the superego, we finally find out how a lack or an absence of concord between these two dynamics (individual and social) reflect the optimal circumstances of occurrence of a pathology of the moral personality, according to a psychiatric nosography.
authors.affiliation: UCL, Theux.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Motte dit Falisse
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D009014:Morals; D010551:Personality; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D013475:Superego; D013561:Symbolism
vernacular_title: Participation et séparation: critères référentiels d'étude de la genèse de la personnalité morale et de sa pathologie.