What's the point of talking about masochism in integrative psychosomatics?
We've spent several years of Club Biblio on the works of Prof. Jean Benjamin Stora, tirelessly reworking the clinical cases in his various books, and we've come to the end of this work, at least for a while. While we all studied the basic concepts of integrative psychosomatics in our first year at IPSI, for some of us that may be a long time ago. Beyond the wear and tear of time, it's important to revisit them and go further, together, and understand in fine detail what we're integrating from psychoanalysis into psychosomatics, why and how. We began last December and continued in January 2024 with the birth of the psychic system. We continue in February with masochism.
Prof. Jean Benjamin Stora recalls in his first-year IPSI course, "Masochism and somatization", that "masochism has long been considered an enigma; confronted in his analytic experience with patients who don't want to heal, who don't want to change, who hold on to their symptoms and suffer from pleasure, Freud gave the name negative therapeutic reaction. It should be remembered here that Freud always remained within the realm of depth psychology, and never wished to venture into or develop the psychosomatic approach."
Basically, we can ask ourselves a simple question: what's the point of talking about masochism in integrative psychosomatics?
After a presentation of the issue, we'll discuss it together!
For those who think this is still theory, remember what Kurt Lewin (1890-1947), to my knowledge the first psychosociologist, said: "there's nothing as practical as a good theory!"
