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The Team of Akan’s Tower/trained in the most relevant methods of addiction treatment

If you remember about Akan’s friends, you could easily recognize, standing in front of the entry of A-Tower:

- “Betsy Mac Call”: the American Paper Doll living on the 16th floor; the special one who was listening and consoling anorexic person in special need.

 

 

Betsy  Mac Call. Alice Odilon Copyrights

 

- “Blythe Somat”: the Hemiplegic Flower Doll on the second floor.

 

Blythe Somat and Betsy Mac Call. Alice Odilon Copyrights.

- The Androgynous Doll “Isee” who has been involved recently in Akan’s Tower.

The androgynous doll “Isee”, whom leitmotiv was:”My body behind my eyes”. Alice Odilon Self-portraits. 1984. All rights reserved.

- “Syndra Raynaud”, the Amputated Hand, always smoking cannabis during the long sessions of therapeutic relaxation.

The hemiplegic Hand Syndra Raynaud. Alice Odilon. copyrights

 

- “Isabelle Caro’s soul” as an audit and a Art Teacher in Akan’s Tower.

Isabelle Caro painting.

 

- “Whouh”, the Wolf Masked Doll, a leader in energy therapy.

“Whouh” the Wolf masked doll and “Weacky”, the shy Ragdoll cat.

 

- “Weaky” the Ragdoll cat, the inseparable friend of Whouh.

- “Mova” the running avatar taking care of bringing prescriptions as soon as possible in every flat of the 4 flours Rehab center.

- “Allegraka” the unfinished avatar, with a changing head and thin waist, the flying teacher.

Yes the “FLYING” teacher, the best thing in treatment, allowed to patients having done efforts to struggle and discover themselves.

 

In final, the complete team counted 10 members, Akan included and was ready to begin the A-Casting.

Alice ODILON 2011 27/06. all rights reserved.

 

Rehab Tower Clinic/Anorexia addiction treatments/in Akaland

I don’t know what happened in Akan’s mind, because one day, she woke up very strong and sure she had a rule to accomplish.

Probably it was her anorexia getting worse every day.

I didn’t dare to talk to her about that, as I thought, it was late in life, and I’ve understood she had become to believe she got a mission on earth.

One day she came to me and informed me: “There was no better place to begin an anorexia addiction treatment than in Akan’s Tower.”

With over 25 years of fighting anorexia on her own, Akan had found the strength to help others anorexic persons to recover from the challenges of addiction and other autistic disorders.

Akan’s tower provided an unparallelled range of services delivered by the “Tenants Team”, the passionate and complete team of Akan’s Friends.

Treatment offered at Akan’s Tower Clinic didn’t only address eating disorders but also Asperger Syndrom among others.

 

Whether you needed to seek addiction treatment for yourself or a loved one, you would find that Akan’s Team offered a peaceful setting that was solidarity oriented.

With its 4 floors dedicated to anorexia treatment, open 24/7, Akan’s Tower seemed to be the best immediate assistance.

Rehab Tower Clinic provided residential primary treatment, secondary care, detox, interventions, counselling and aftercare as well as a dedicated hurt and unfortunate persons and runaway rescue program.

Fact: there was no brochure for fees at Akan’s Tower clinic, as it was free for people in anorexic crisis.

Places were counted, of course, but with its 24 bedrooms and its 5 lounges, 5 kitchen, 24 bathrooms, Akan’s clinic offered a chance to get away from the distractions and triggers in every day life and allowed one to recuperate and focus on getting better.

First step was admission.

And in crisis situation anorexic persons needed immediate admission, as danger of death could be imminent.

The Rehab Tower Clinic opening ceremony took place on 14 of April 1991.

Akan had advertised in newspapers and talked on TV special disorders program.

That was it, she and her precious team were ready to welcome the deadliest and weakest anorexic person.

Only 24 places.

 

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (LISBOA). (la file d’attente pour le casting devant Akan.

 

Akan and her special members (the Tenants team)  had voted to choose the worst figures which would be able to come for selection and discretely favor the most freakish anorexic cases.

It was not a question of social backgrounds; candidates would be chosen on anonymous basis.

Young girls and women were queuing along the main avenue in town center from airport to Akan’s tower and from train station to A. Tower.

Even lost runaway hurt anorexic street workers came from nowhere to find a bed and cuddles in Rehab Tower clinic.


“Akan distribuant ses points aux candidates du casting”.

 

And it made you sick to see dying starving girls collapsing on the pavement without help of anybody, as everybody was dying in this queue of ghosts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. (La queue pour le paradis)

 

Alice Odilon. 16 of  june 2011.

 

Le Jardin des anorexies délicieuses

“La Tour Akanienne”. Copyright Alice Odilon 2009

 

Dans cette histoire de Tour Akanienne, j’aurais pu jouer avec les Arcanes Majeurs du tarot et d’étage en numéro, les locataires auraient trouvé leur place et leur sens contextuel, mais je voulais rester dans le sens unique de chaque personnage.

Il n’y aurait jamais dans cette tour, une cohérence ésotérique, une totale relativité des choses entre elles, car bien que les contrastes, les inégalités, les pouvoirs anarchiques aient une influence considérable sur le déroulement des vies, je pensais qu’il existait un espace vide occasionnant les solitudes des uns envers les autres.

Chaque histoire, chaque présent était inconnus de leur contemporains et, ainsi, sans fil ombilical, les personnages existaient sans bonne raison dans la Tour de Akan.

Soit qu’ils fut réfugiés, pensionnés, logés gratuitement, ou locataires, voir propriétaires, ils figuraient sur la liste des occupants officiels enregitrés dans le Grand Livre des Heures Akanniennes.

Une chose unissait ces gens abrités dans cet insolent gratte-ciel:

- la rêverie, un rêve éveillé les animant d’heure en heure dans une harmonie délicieuse et hallucinatoire.

Ces personnages en état second, vivaient en même temps, des illusions ou des fantasmes aussi éloignés les uns des autres, et cependant parvenaient à se dire bonjour dans l’ascenseur ou à partager des festivités ensemble, dans une joie naturelle et littéralement biologique, voire une extase de vivre.

Bien sûr un cauchemar naissait régulièrement dans la tour et des gens souffraient devant la mort sans qu’à l’étage au dessus on s’en soit aperçu.

Chaque appartement ouvrait sur des citations tronquées comme celle de Godard, volées pour être aimées, appropriées pour devenir réelle dans le rêve de ces gens de la Tour.

Ces êtres souffraient pour la plupart de TOC * et ne s’en vantaient pas, n’y n’avaient créé de groupes thérapeutiques.

Certains brillaient de leur force singulière et d’autres de leur handicap foudroyant.

Cependant dans cette Tour, ces gens si seuls les uns des autres, s’aimaient même de loin.

 

“La Tour Akanienne II.” Copyright Alice Odilon 2011.

 

* Le trouble obsessionnel compulsif (abrégé en TOC) est un trouble anxieux caractérisé par l’apparition récurrente de pensées intrusives liées ou non à une phobie.

Ces pensées dites obsessions génèrent des angoisses qui, selon certaines théories psychiatriques, seraient la cause des compulsions que l’on observe aussi chez ces personnes.
Ces compulsions sont des séries de gestes reconnus comme irrationnels par la personne mais néanmoins répétés de façon ritualisée et envahissante parfois jusqu’à la mise en danger de sa propre vie.

Alice Odilon 21/03/2011. Tous Droits Réservés.

Hemiplegic flower-doll revealed her terrible secret

I don’t know when Akan realized that in her building a paper doll (Betsy Mac Call) lived on the 16th floor and an hemiplegic flower-doll on the second floor.

In fact she met the first in the lift sometimes. But she never saw the other in the elevator, as she probably didn’t like to use it for only 2 floors.

Akan noticed that Miss Flower Doll (her real name was Blythe Somat) seemed to suffer from severe somatic disorders because {she dragged her left leg and her hand was folded back over her forearm}.

Additionally she had a frail body condition and a extremely pale complexion.

But what’s the most mysterious was that this young girl didn’t have a face, her white hair hidden this lack of identity.

And most curious: she didn’t seem to need eyes, mouth and nose.

The question began to be:”How can she see, eat, drink, listen, speak, cry, scream???????”

There was no need for that apparently.


“Betsy Mac Call plays with Blythe Somat in the cemetery”. Copyright Alice Odilon 2010 .

The Flower-Doll was invented By French Psychanalyst Françoise DOLTO in 1950.

No need anymore for speaking, smiling, singing, tasting bread and butter, enjoying coffee, orange juice.

She never had the power of speech.

Undoubtedly she saw and felt with other senses that Akan had never considered in her entire life.

On the other hand, Miss Somat seemed to be aware of everything going on around her and nothing escaped her attention.

It was due to the high level perception of her rod-body.

We can say Miss Flower-doll had no need of a back and front, because they were the same from both sides.

Some weird magnetic thing made her extremely attractive.

Akan was obliged to admit she wanted to know more about Blythe Somat, even if she had to be intrusive.

This particular feeling made Akan guilty and ashamed, but she didn’t want to control this offensive curiosity.

So on the 15th of November 2010, on an awful rainy day, Akan rang at Blythe Somat’s door, in order to invite her for tea.

BS opened the door immediately.

Akan was quite surprised when she saw the blood covering Blythe Somat.

She was still standing but close to a sudden collapse.

- Oh my God! what happened to you, Blythe? asked Akan crying and shaking her hands.

- Miss Somat moved her disabled forearm with the dead hand and tried to say, it was the result of her condition.

She was  just  subject to “somatosensory amplification”: a tendency to perceive normal somatic and visceral sensation as being overly intense in a negative way.

Blythe asked for a pen and a piece of paper to reveal some terrible fact:

- You know, I’m a Flower-doll, a hard-worker:

– I spend all my positive energy in surviving during hours every day, being beaten and abused, and hurt by victim children needing to vent their anger on some generous professional scapegoat.

That’s my job! That’s  the way I pay my rent and holidays.

I’m no good for anything else, you know.

Unable to speak, Akan thought: What a shocking truth she had been reading.

And Flower-Doll wrote some words again: Because I’m such a nice girl, I am a “naughty thing” for abused or narcissistic children in need to evacuate anger and fear.

Do you understand I cure traumatized victims?

I’m quite happy with that. It makes me an essential very important toy-tool.

- Yes, I understand, you are a body of sacrifice.

And then Akan wanted to call 999 when Betsy Mac Call arrived passing the door, claiming the elevator was out of order and what a pain it was to walk 16 floors.

…..to be followed……

Alice Odilon. Novembre 2010.


Pretty Picture found on Forum Pakistan

If Akan becomes “object a”, she will die

Akan a buté sur une citation de Jacques Lacan, issue du Séminaire X: “L’amour consiste à offrir quelque chose qu’on n’a pas à quelqu’un qui n’en veut pas.”

Maintenant elle s’interroge : “ai-je connu cette échange unique avec quelqu’un?”

Oui, elle l’a connu quelques secondes, dans un village de France, perdu dans le sud.

Elle venait de quitter en pleurs son analyste,  elle était désespérée, le néant l’avalait, elle ne comprenait plus sa vie.

Lui, il l’a rattrapée en bas dans la rue, en prétextant aller chercher des cigarettes au tabac, il l’a regardée quelques secondes pour l’atteindre, et elle a sentie si fort ce regard d’amour.

Elle l’a refusé sans savoir, par instinct auto-destructeur, elle s’est refermée sur elle, sur rien.

Elle savait qu’il ne pouvait pas lui donner ce qu’il donnait déjà à quelqu’un d’autre, elle le savait, elle ne pouvait que refuser de connaître cette couleur amère amoureux.

Il eût été question de passion en place de l’amour.

Et cela lui semblait trop enivrant.

(Sur cette photo c’est autre chose: Akan les a photographiés à Lisbonne/airport, lui il ne l’aimait plus, et elle demandait son amour.

Elle lui donnait tout sauf ce qu’il attendait, et lui ne voulait pas de cette demande là.)

Alors la maigre Akan se penche sur son enfance et cherche des traces d’ amour.


Akan a été la fille de Andrée , la mère affamante.

{Quand l’Autre rabat l’amour au niveau du besoin, dit Lacan, il est étouffant.}

{Quand l’Autre « confond ses soins avec le don de son amour », quand l’Autre, à la place de donner ce qu’il n’a pas – ce qui est la définition de l’amour –} ne donne que la nourriture inerte.

Quand l’Autre, donc, à la place de donner ce qu’il n’a pas «  gave Akan de la bouillie étouffante », alors Akan a refusé de satisfaire à la demande de Andrée : « Akan gavée de bouillie-leurre d’amour,  a refusé la nourriture et a joué de son refus comme d’un désir de rien, d’un rien fécond, avec une charge potentielle positive.

Elle arrache son propre coeur de son corps, pour mieux voir et vivre.

“Oculaire Cardiaque”. Copyright Alice Odilon 2009.


Akan utilise son anorexie comme son signe identificatoire,  vouant un culte au rien sacré.

Akan ne se représente pas, elle ne vit pas dans son corps, simplement dans ses yeux.

S’il fallait qu’un miroir la réfléchisse il montrerait une forme filiforme placardée d’un manteau plat sans profondeur ni intérieur.

L’image d’Akan dans le miroir est une housse en plastique,  pas grand chose d’elle-même puisque tous les vêtements vitaux sont enfermés et rendus  invisibles par le contenant à fermeture éclair.

Akan sert de  porte-manteau en os, la seule structure capable de tenir tête au mauvais oeil de la mère méduse.

L’habit ne fait pas Akan.


“Anorexie”. {“Abercombrie and Fitch” picture.}


Le manteau  spéculaire  cache le ceintre maigre et habille la douleur.

Mais Akan se cache dans bien moins encore.

Akan se cache dans son  regard, elle  incarne l’objet regard.

La césure corporelle s’effectue par les yeux.

Le regard est le lieu où Akan “tient son moi et même son corps”. { Françoise Dolto : l’enfant du miroir}.

Çà vit uniquement dans son regard.

Les yeux sont le sanctuaire de vie de Akan. Ils ne se représentent pas, ils voient.

Akan est l’objet regard dont la présence meurtrie.

Son regard tue.

Alice Odilon. 21 septembre 2010.

Akan stumbled over a quotation of Jacques Lacan, in  Seminary X: “ Love consists in giving something that other one doesn’t have to somebody else who does not want it ”.

Now she asks herself: “ did I knew this sort of unique exchange with anybody ?”

Yes, she knew it, once a time,  for some seconds, in a village of France, lost in the south.

She had there just left  her analyst, she was despaired, she didn’t understood her life anymore.

The analyst  caught her in the street below, by using as an excuse going  to buy cigarettes in tobacco, he looked at her to attain her, and she felt so very much this look of love.

She refused it without knowing how to accept what she wanted so much, by auto-destructive instinct, she closed again on her, on nothing.

She knew that he could not give her what he has already given to somebody else, she knew it, she could only refuse to know this pain of loving failure.

It would have been question of live passion instead of love.

And it seemed forbidden for them.

Then thin Akan remembers her childhood and searches traces of  love.

Akan was the daughter of Andrée, the “starvation” mother.

{When Other one pulls down love at the level of the need, says Lacan, he is oppressive}.

{When Other one « merges its care with the donation of its love », when Other one, gives dead food instead to give what he does not have – what is the definition of love– he is an abuser}.

When Other one, therefore, to give what it does not have « force-feeds Akan with the oppressive gruel », then Akan refuses to meet at the request of Andrée: « Akan force-fed with gruel – decoy of love- , refuses the food and plays her refusal as a wish of nothing, a fecund nothing, with a positive potential load.

She tears off her own heart of her body, to see better and live.


“Le temps du coeur”.Copyright Alice Odilon 2009.


Akan has in fact no identity,  only the one to be anorexic, toxicomane of the nothing.

Akan cannot be represented by herself, she doesn’t see her real self, because it’s not shown in the mirror.

If it was possible that a mirror reflects it,  it would show a spindly form posted by a superficial flat topcoat nor an inside.

Akan appears as a ghost in the mirror, she is completely picked up by this specular picture, that means her emptiness, as her weak vital inside stays invisible in the mirror.

Akan is the coat rack in bones, the only structure able of standing up to the bad eye of the killer mother.

The specular coat does not make Akan.

It  hides the thin Akan and dresses pain.

The bodily caesura is made by eyes.

“Le Marquis”. Self-portrait Alice Odilon 1984. All rights reserved.


Look is the place where Akan ” holds her self  and even her body “. {Françoise Dolto: the child of the mirror}.

Life stays only in her look.

Eyes are the shrine of life of Akan.

They’re not visible, but they see.

Akan is the object “look” of which  presence hurts.

Her eyes kill.

Alice Odilon.

September 21st, 2010.



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