title: [The late-life companion and the inanimate object of the person with senile dementia: an attempt at comprehension through a comparative study with phenomena encountered during childhood].
abstract: The thought of this work about the mad senile person's affective life concerns some almost permanent clinical establishments such as: on one hand, the existence of late-life companions and inanimate objects evoking some phenomena met during childhood: fancied companion, fetish objects. On the other hand, the existence of "behaviours" evoking those of the little child during his psycho-affective development. We have been led to study the notion of regression during the dementia process and ask ourselves about psychopathological mechanisms underlying this regression, regarded as a mechanism of narcissistic strengthening underlying the appearance of late-life companion or inanimate object. We underline in the conclusion that: on one hand, for these persons showing a deep disturbance of narcissistic economy, there is need to elaborate a relation with a narcissistic object, according to the somato-psychic deterioration level. On the other hand, the phenomena established during the dementia process, can't be assimilated to opposite distance covered by progressive movement.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011599:Psychopathology; D012043:Regression, Psychology
vernacular_title: Le compagnon tardif et l'objet non animé du sujet dément sénile: essai de compréhension par une étude comparative avec des phénomènes rencontrés au cours de l'enfance.