Entre langue unique et Babel des langues : bricoler de la pensée en équipes pluriprofessionnelles

Abstract

Context

As part of a meta-reflection on contemporary social developments, the aim is to examine the relationship between care and social work professionals and language.

Aims

The authors aim to shed light on the way in which thought appears to be simultaneously grappling with the totalising, sometimes totalitarian, temptation of a single language, and a Babelisation, a multiplication of languages and dialects.

Method

The case study enables us to uncover transference-countertransference movements, and specifically the archaic movements that develop in multi-professional team configurations.

Results

When we listen to these dynamics, what emerges clearly has to do with the psychological processes at play: the passage from conflict to conflictuality, and from the One to the many. This allows us to see group work in action, insofar as it opens up to pluralisation.

Interpretations

Group configurations are characterised by rhythmic movements of unification and pluralisation. Listening to these movements helps to make the work of professionalism and multi-professionalism more fluid.