ABSTRACT
Introducing Raymond Cahn is very difficult for a number of reasons. The first is that reading and re-reading his work engenders a feeling of familiarity that discourages a critical stance. Conversely, circumstances can arise in adolescence that lead to definitive fixations and consolidations. Adolescence is a critical time of life, involving instinctual transformations concerning the discovery of genitality; problems of identity; issues concerning one's place vis-à-vis the other, face to face with the object. Cahn is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and membre titulaire of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society, of which he was President in 1979-1980. Cahn's work on the relationship between psychosis and adolescence increasingly led him to question the relationship between the subject and the outside world, and also between the subject and his own consitutional difficulties. Subjectification is far from being an obscure neologism: Cahn himself, sees subjectification as the negative of objectification.
