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Michelle Morin
SFPE-AT, France
Keynote: Psychiatry Ment. Health Res
Anaïs Nin went through two psychoanalytic treatments. The first one was with Allende and she had intercourse with him during the psychoanalysis. After the incest with her father, she felt the necessity of a psychotherapy with Otto Rank, in 1933, Anais Nin thirty years old, rejoins her beloved father, the pianist and composer Joachin Nin. She had not seen him since the age of eleven when he left his family for a mistress. She then started to write a diary. I want to show how you can make links and interpret the material and associations of her diary like the material of a psychoanalysis or a psychotherapy. When they meet again, he behaves like an incestual father telling her his love affairs and his sexual life with her mother. Then he relates to her an incestuous dream with her and acts like a lover until the consummate incest. She seems to consent but feels guilty, between fear and desire, and disgust. She will complain of intense heart beats, death anxiety and loss of joy. Through her Journal of Incest (1932-1934) and her Youth Journal (1914-1919), I will try to understand how such an incest can happen. The father is an incestuous father who has no taboo of the incest, don’t recognize the difference between generations, don’t respect the body intimacy of his daughter and treat her like a narcissistic object. He fluctuates between psychosis without symptoms and narcissistic perversion. Anais has a hysterical personality, with separation anxiety, psychosomatic and pervert symptoms. This patchwork evokes a borderline state. She acts sometimes like a narcissistic pervert.
Michelle Morin is a prominent psychiatrist and academic figure based in France. She holds the position of Vice-president of SFPE-AT (Société Française de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent et Disciplines Associées), indicating her active involvement and leadership in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. She has made significant contributions to the field of psychiatry through her research and publications. Her work spans a variety of topics, including the complex and controversial subject matter of familial relationships and their psychological impact. She has published research articles in renowned journals such as the American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, showcasing her multidisciplinary approach and contributions to the field of psychiatry.
