De l'incestuel à l'enfant-sorcier : des mots pour le dire

First of all, this work shows the impossibility of putting a name on an “incestuel” family functioning and the ensuing confusion. Resorting to the aetiology of the witch-child appears here as a metaphor of this type of functioning, on account of the equivalent unconscious fantasies that underpin the two dynamics. However, only the articulation of the two registers, culture and psyche, in the setting of work on meaning, will enable the subjects concerned to embark on an elaboration. It is here that, by way of metaphorisation, this work cane enable a process of translation, figuration and individuation to occur.