ABSTRACT
One of the essential questions of the psychoanalytical work of elaboration of narcissistic suffering and its effects on the psychic organization is the confrontation with destructiveness which is often at the center of this work.
In this chapter, I study the forms of binding and unbinding of destructiveness, and I explore, in particular, the processes of negativity that operate in the negative therapeutic reaction. Finally, based on different clinical conjunctures in which destructiveness, unbinding or bad forms of binding are central, I propose hypotheses on the historical sources, from early childhood, of these forms of destructiveness.
