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The notion of catharsis, in relation to tragedy, was introduced by Aristotle in his work Poetics. Over the centuries, Aristotle's innovative and enigmatic reference to this process has been widely commented on and given rise to intense controversy. In 1895, Freud and Breuer reconsidered this notion in their Studies on Hysteria, where they present the so-called cathartic therapeutic method. It is not, however, this aspect of psychoanalytical theory that the author of this article seeks to elucidate: drawing on a detailed study of the references to tragic catharsis in the work of Freud and Lacan, the author proposes to examine their implications for psychoanalytic treatment.With specific reference to Freud's article Psychopathic characters on the stage (1905) and Lacan's commentary on Sophocles' Antigone (1960), the author argues that catharsis is to be understood not so much as a mechanism of discharge linked to abreaction, but rather as the actual analytic process itself during which the Subject is 'unveiled' and thus faced with the enigma of his own desire.

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A partir d’expériences cliniques, nous réinterrogerons le lien de l’enfant autiste à la voix. Nous soutiendrons que corps et langage entre en résonance à partir du timbre, dimension réelle de la voix «sonore». Voix machinique, voix artificielle ou encore phrasés musicaux vont être utilisés par l’autiste pour jouer avec cette dimension du timbre permettant une ouverture vers le langage. Repérer les possibilités de résonnance de l’enfant devient une nouvelle perspective clinique.