On the Origin of Hate in Borderline Pathologies

Begining from an unusual clinical experience composed of fragments of improbable encounters with an adolescent going through a period marked by high-risk behavior in a violent context before becoming an “extreme ski” professional; I propose to study the question of death at adolescence… not as a reflection on loss and grievance, but as an essential figure of the unpresentable which organizes high-risk behavior during adolescence. With this approach, death reunites inevitable and random figures while confronting what is unpresentable of one’s own death. Thus, we have a different reading of the classical approach to risk-taking, which commonly refers to the idea of ordealistic, high-risk behavior as a narcissistic trial. Another approach considers risk-taking as an attempt to represent an intimate relationship with death and what is unpresentable of one’s own death. This dynamic. Takes from in what may be called an instantaneous clinical moment, where what is experienced during the act cannot be resolved though the realization of the act itself. It is in fact the question of a chaotic attempt to express, by feeling, an experience which remains errant.