L’identification projective dans la toxicomanie

In this article we shall see how using drugs disturbs the activity of projective identification and symbolical processes. The addict clinic makes known the early difficulties of expression of projective identification in correction with mother object apprehended like persecuting or idealizing. Because of real trauma or difficulties to realize the process of separation-individuation, the repression has not succeeded to put up or has become insufficient. In the same way, the psychic work of projection and introjection has been put in parentheses by the drug. This one, by activating a narcissistic libido to hold the representations of destructive instincts, substitutes an incorporation act to introjection, signs the breaking off the object relation and compromises the process of symbolization. The incorporation act expresses a traumatic experience, which has not been symbolized in an incorporation fantasy. It’s going on by a process of demetaphorisation. Contrary to psychotic personality, the stop of the projective identification avoids the loss of the identity feeling. The percept system is distorted to accuse the destabilising effects of an external and internal reality.