title: [Peculiarities and effects of the nocturnal psychological life of the child and adolescent].
abstract: It is hard to get a good look at psychic night life and its mysteries. It resists our inquiry and is a jealous gate keeper. In this article we write about a distinctive study of the manifestations and the problems of the child's and adolescent's psychic night life. It serves as a fictional model of freudian metapsychology, without totally neglecting electroneurophysiological discoveries. The indispensable distance between a fictional model and the fixity of a model (such as the electroencephalographic trace) becomes a fertile source when other paths are prudently explored and in the reduction of the illusion that one model can possibly overlap the other.
authors.affiliation: Service universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent, Lausanne, Suisse.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Porret
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004325:Dreams; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012894:Sleep Stages
vernacular_title: Particularités et incidences de la vie psychique nocturne chez l'enfant et l'adolescent.