Abstract

CLERK, Nicole. Adolescence and knowledge metabolisation.Translated byViviane Veras. Estilos clin. [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.22, pp. 48-67. ISSN 1415-7128.

A clinical research explores the relation to knowledge and learning of low ability teenagers and their images and conception of academic learning. How is their intimate ego structured to apprehend knowledge and learning? The analysis of the behaviour of these young people when confronted to learning, shows that -for some of them-, learning causes emotional troubles that lead them to a form of unconscious withdrawal into a "physical" form of ego, showing their capacity to "learn through their bodies". We then discuss the anthropological and Freudian views of the concept of "incorporation" and "introjection". We then study the relationship between their incapability to "digest" knowledge and their deep expectation from the adults to "predigest " knowledge for them; to describe this, referring to Bion, I use the expression "dreamed metabolisation ".

Keywords : Incorporation; Relation to knowledge; Relation to the body.

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