ABSTRACT
The erotisation of suffering at work one's own or that of others, frequently allows one to bear the constraints, and even to find satisfaction or derive enjoyment from them by binding the excitement that resists sublimation. Of this, the patient, just like others, could only speak with difficulty. To do this, listening attentively to the material obstacles of his work was necessary. From this perspective, self-hatred is not to be considered as the strict residue of a superego-related or archaic guilt. It is the theoretical link that makes it possible to go back to the roots of ethical suffering. Manifestations of unconscious guilt, at the forefront of which is the need for self-punishment, derive from the patient's treatment of conflicts that pertain in the first place to activity and are related to working conditions.
