Emprises des êtres, meurtrissures des âmes : de l'identification à l'appropriation. Analyse médico-psychocriminologique de violences contemporaines

Grip has been defined as a destructive impulse, implementing an active, offensive aggressiveness, fuelled by sexual energy, and also as a fundamental violence. It has been analysed from a psychosocial point of view as much as from the angle of intimate duality, be it ruled by affects (cf. romantic feelings) or emotions (cf. Pygmalion effect). This type of relationship unfolds through manipulation and perversion which aim to ensure ascendance and suffering upon the other, by means of appropriation proceeding from any kind of violence that will assail the target, from submission to depersonalisation, thanks to control and negation of the other individual, and more generally, the conditioning. This article returns to the definition of grip, identity and identification for an enhanced comprehension of the gripper's profile, commonly named narcissistic pervert, the profile of the gripped, and the relationship between them. It retraces psychological and neurobiological elements, substantially useful in therapeutic care of victims. Psychological violence, at the root of primary and secondary psychotraumatic disorders, is also considered, given its expanding importance among the forms of violence observed in medical judicial units as in society. The very mechanisms of grip which are described constitute as many keys of understanding intimate and societal violence nowadays.