Memory traces and sensory perceptions. When dance enters the session.
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| Title: | Memory traces and sensory perceptions. When dance enters the session. |
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| Alternate Title: | Gedächtnisspuren und Sinneswahrnehmungen. Wenn Tanz in die Sitzung Einzug hält. Las huellas mnémicas y las percepciones sensoriales. Cuando la danza entra en la sesión. Traces mnésiques et perceptions sensorielles. Quand la danse entre en séance. Tracce mnestiche e percezioni sensoriali. Quando la danza entra in seduta. |
| Authors: | Carton, Solange (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Apr2026, Vol. 107 Issue 2, p133-150. 18p. |
| Subjects: | Sensory perception, Memory, Transference (Psychology), Psychosexual development, Mental imagery, Psychoanalysis, Dance therapy |
| Abstract (English): | This paper looks at how sensory perception and motility in the session can activate and reshape memory-traces of unconscious infantile sexuality. It investigates how listening to them in the transference serves as an appeal to drive representation, the redeployment of the autoerotism of infantile sexuality and its participation in the production of fantasy, contributing to the accomplishment of infantile wishes. The author explores this hypothesis in the psychoanalytic work of a female patient who practises dance and makes particular use of sensory perceptions and motility in the session. She asks herself which sensory elements have permeated memory, that is to say the original memory traces that can never be retrieved, and how and for what purposes this is expressed in the session through speech or perception. She shows how sensory perception is an ally of language inasmuch as it is capable of qualifying internal processes, but also emphasizes its duplicity, in that it partially and momentarily escapes the long path of inhibition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Spanish): | Este artículo trata sobre la manera en que la percepción sensorial y la motilidad en la sesión pueden activar y reconfigurar las huellas mnémicas de la sexualidad infantil inconsciente. Se investiga cómo el escucharlas en la transferencia sirve como un llamado a la representación de la pulsión, al redespliegue del autoerotismo de la sexualidad infantil y su participación en la producción de la fantasía, lo que contribuye al cumplimiento de deseos infantiles. La autora analiza esta hipótesis en el trabajo psicoanalítico con una paciente que practica danza y hace un uso particular de las percepciones sensoriales y la motilidad en la sesión. Se pregunta, asimismo, cuáles elementos sensoriales han impregnado la memoria, es decir las huellas mnémicas originales que no pueden recuperarse jamás, y cómo y para qué propósito se expresa esto en la sesión mediante el discurso o la percepción. La autora muestra cómo la percepción sensorial es un aliado del lenguaje en la medida en que es capaz de calificar procesos internos, pero también subraya su duplicidad, en cuanto escapa, parcial y momentáneamente, del largo camino de la inhibición. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (French): | Cet article s'intéresse à la façon dont la perception sensorielle dans la séance et la motilité sont susceptibles d'activer et de remanier les traces mnésiques du sexuel infantile inconscient. Il investigue comment leur écoute transférentielle est un point d'appel à la représentance pulsionnelle, au redéploiement des auto-érotismes du sexuel infantile et à leur participation à la mise en scène du fantasme, contribuant à l'accomplissement du désir infantile. Nous suivons cette hypothèse avec le travail analytique d'une patiente, qui pratique la danse et a particulièrement recours aux perceptions sensorielles en séance et à la motilité. Nous nous demandons ainsi ce qui, du sensoriel, a imprégné la mémoire, c'est-à-dire s'est imprégné dans les traces mnésiques originelles, auxquelles on n'aura jamais accès, et comment, et à quelles fins ça s'exprime en séance dans la parole ou la perception ? Nous montrons comment la perception sensorielle constitue un allié du langage dans son pouvoir de qualifier les processus internes, mais nous soulignons sa duplicité, dans le sens où elle échappe, partiellement et momentanément, à la voie longue de l'inhibition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (German): | Dieser Artikel befasst sich damit, wie Sinneswahrnehmungen und Motorik in der Sitzung Gedächtnisspuren unbewusster kindlicher Sexualität aktivieren und umgestalten können. Er untersucht, wie das Zuhören in der Übertragung als Aufruf zur Triebdarstellung dient, zur Wiederbelebung des Autoerotismus kindlicher Sexualität und zu dessen Beteiligung an der Produktion von Fantasien, was zur Erfüllung kindlicher Wünsche beiträgt. Die Autorin untersucht diese Hypothese anhand der psychoanalytischen Arbeit einer Patientin, die Tanz praktiziert und in der Sitzung insbesondere Sinneswahrnehmungen und Motorik einsetzt. Sie fragt sich, welche sensorischen Elemente die Erinnerung durchdrungen haben, d. h. die ursprünglichen Erinnerungsspuren, die nie wieder abgerufen werden können, und wie und zu welchem Zweck dies in der Sitzung durch Sprache oder Wahrnehmung zum Ausdruck kommt. Sie zeigt, wie die Sinneswahrnehmung ein Verbündeter der Sprache ist, da sie in der Lage ist, innere Prozesse zu qualifizieren, betont aber auch ihre Doppelbedeutung, da sie sich teilweise und vorübergehend dem langen Weg der Hemmung entzieht. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Italian): | Il presente contributo si propone di esaminare in che modo la percezione sensoriale e la motilità in seduta possano attivare e rimaneggiare le tracce mnestiche della sessualità infantile inconscia. Si indaga come il loro ascolto nel transfert funga da appello alla rappresentanza pulsionale, al ridispiegamento degli autoerotismi della sessualità infantile e alla loro partecipazione alla messa in scena del fantasma, contribuendo al compimento del desiderio infantile. L'autrice sviluppa tale ipotesi attraverso il lavoro analitico condotto con una paziente che pratica la danza e ricorre in modo particolare alle percezioni sensoriali e alla motilità in seduta. Ci si interroga così su quali elementi del sensoriale abbiano impregnato la memoria, ovvero si siano impressi nelle tracce mnestiche originarie – alle quali non si avrà mai accesso diretto – oltre che sulle modalità e le finalità con cui questi si esprimono in seduta attraverso la parola o la percezione. Si mostra in che modo la percezione sensoriale si configuri come alleata del linguaggio nella sua capacità di qualificare i processi interni, sottolineandone tuttavia la duplicità - nel senso che essa sfugge, parzialmente e momentaneamente, al lungo percorso dell'inibizione. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | This paper looks at how sensory perception and motility in the session can activate and reshape memory-traces of unconscious infantile sexuality. It investigates how listening to them in the transference serves as an appeal to drive representation, the redeployment of the autoerotism of infantile sexuality and its participation in the production of fantasy, contributing to the accomplishment of infantile wishes. The author explores this hypothesis in the psychoanalytic work of a female patient who practises dance and makes particular use of sensory perceptions and motility in the session. She asks herself which sensory elements have permeated memory, that is to say the original memory traces that can never be retrieved, and how and for what purposes this is expressed in the session through speech or perception. She shows how sensory perception is an ally of language inasmuch as it is capable of qualifying internal processes, but also emphasizes its duplicity, in that it partially and momentarily escapes the long path of inhibition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 00207578 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00207578.2025.2571082 |
