Adults

In adult life, not everything we feel can be immediately put into words. There are recurring pains, disconcerting choices, persistent discomforts — we find ourselves making decisions that don’t make sense, and yet, they repeat. We may not always understand where these patterns come from or why they insist.

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At Lalangue Institute, our approach is grounded in psychoanalytic thinking, particularly the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Their perspective holds that there is a knowledge that escapes us — a truth that emerges in slips of the tongue, dreams, and symptoms — and that can only come to light within a unique space of listening.

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Psychoanalytic work doesn’t ignore symptoms; rather, it seeks to understand what lies beneath them: the history, relationships, and unconscious processes that may be shaping a person’s experience and suffering. Our work goes beyond simply treating symptoms — it invites us to question what they might be saying.

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This approach is not about rushing to label or offering ready-made answers. It opens a space where each person can speak of themselves, in their own way, supported by a form of listening that welcomes and works on what is most enigmatic and singular in their experience.

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Whether someone is facing anxiety, depression, trauma, identity difficulties, or other complex forms of distress, we offer a space where words can take shape — and where something new can emerge.

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Psychic suffering, far from being a mere error or dysfunction, is often a silent way of speaking about something that insists in one’s life. Symptoms, impasses, repetitions — all can be read as attempts to deal with desire, with trauma, with what does not quite fit in life.

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Psychoanalysis places its wager on the word — but not just any word. It values the one that arises from experience, from the encounter with another who listens without judgment, without rushing to interpret.

 

Along this path, marked by listening, silence, missteps, and invention, each person can begin to construct a way of being in the world that is more their own — while gradually alleviating deep psychic distress.