The voice of the body: Psychosomatics according to Christophe Dejours

Abstract

The article discusses the subject of psychosomatics in the light of the work of Christophe Dejours.
For this author, it is from the adult’s contact with the child’s body that the erotic body is born, a
process called libidinal subversion. When this contact is permeated by violence, the constitution
of the psychic apparatus is threatened and a vulnerability to somatic illness is installed.