title: [Little girl ? Woman ? Pieces of analysis of a 9-year-old girl.].
abstract: This moment of a psychoanalytical encounter with a young 9 year old girl seeks, above all, to recount the particular atmosphere which accompanies a meeting of this sort. The term atmosphere is understood to signify the experiential quality associated with the child's psychic reality and with the manner in which it finds expression at the level of fantasy and dreams. Atmosphere also refers to the singularity and style with which the psychic life of this young girl finds expression in the course of her encounter with a female analyst. Also underlined is the utilization of the analyst's counter-transference, which allows her to <<stay as close as possible>> to the flow of the analysis and to respect its unique quality. In this description, one witnesses the manner in which the incestuous <<rapprochement>> with the father (the <<symptom>> motivating her contact with the analyst) masked, in fact, a desire on the part of the young girl for a drawing nearer to, and a feminine identification with the mother, a desire which had been repressed due to the effective absence of the latter. The recovery of this desire allowed the play of identifications to resume its course, and the young girl to discard her regressive behaviour towards her father while maintaining her affection towards him.
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authors.lastname: Bigras