The child between parents’ subjectivity and medical-scientific knowledge

Abstract:

From the psychoanalytic literature, the consequences of the incidence of the contemporary medical-scientific knowledge and of the subjectivity of the parents to the constitution of the subject-child are discussed. The objective is to demonstrate that, contrary to the medical-scientific knowledge that treats the child as an intervention object, psychoanalysis listens to this child - his voice and his speech - as a subject who has to say about his lack of attention and hyperactivity. It is concluded that, in order to constitute itself as a desiring subject, the child should be taken as expeciality, as the subject of the discourse itself and as the constructor of a peculiar knowledge about its symptom.

Keywords:
psychoanalysis; constitution of the subject; attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity; symptom