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D Winaver

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[Sex and love].

Sex is established as soon as spermatozoid and ovule have met. Except for rare cases of ambiguity, you clearly see at birth whether the baby is a boy or a girl. This mere factual difference evolves into sexual identity through childhood and fully blossoms in teenagers. Is sexual maturity happily completed then? Not always. Unrational sexual pulsions and survival instincts belong to the whole animal species but for man's child, as soon as he is born and until he dies, feelings will be intimately involved with sexuality in all its various stages. Teenagers' sexuality is both the end stage of childhood sexuality, being as such full of psychological traps, and the beginning of a search for a balance between sex and love, which is perhaps our modern way of trying to achieve self-fulfilment and happiness.

Adolescent↗

[Breast cancer: the unspeakable].

The drama with the language is that "putting in words" creates an uncrossable chasm between the felt and the expressed. There are moments where the impossibility to communicate cuts the links between doctor and patient. And this often happens in a consultation after the breast cancer has been announced. The unspeakable then, stands between the two protagonists, as the spectral appearance of death. For the patients, the medical revelation then becomes an anathema. The doctor who says the word, becomes the one who overturns a destiny for ever. One knows from greek mythology that confronted to the tragic of his destiny, man hears the ineluctability of the oracle but cannot accepts it. It is the role of the psyche to divert the prophecy so as to have space for hope, for a project of live. To tell, not to tell, how to tell: there is no rule. The misunderstanding is inexorable: it sighs the discordance between the medical reality of the breast cancer, the subject desire and the implication of the doctor who is wedged between the one and the other.

Breast Neoplasms↗