Infantilisation

The infantilisation is an attitude consisting in regarding the other as a Enfant, incompetent to manage all alone, to make the good decisions or to judge by itself what is good for him.

The person who infantilise puts herself in a position of superiority with respect to the infantilized person (Paternalisme) and will try to say to him what is good for it, will want to make the things in her place, will make him the Morale or will say to him how it must think or to behave.

The infantilisation can be suggested by the infantilized person who by her behavior is in request for paternalism, of assumption of responsibility, which it is in a conscious or unconscious way.

The attitude of infantilisation can come from a sincere desire to help the other convinced that one with the good solution or that the other made false route, of a will to give the other in the right way, the standard, because it is judged that it adopts a puerile attitude, or of a desire of domination of the other.

The infantilisation can lead the infantilized person, if it does not take guard there or becomes aware of it to marry the point of view, the projection of the person who it infantilise and to let itself convince that it is definitely not able to behave, that it is not enough mature. We have a process of transfer of the person infantilized towards the person infantilisante. And thus a risk of " all puissance".

Concept that the religion is a source of infantilisation belonged to the Critique of the religions. This point of view was expressed by Freud in the Future of an illusion.

One finds this process of infantilisation in multiple situations:

with respect to the elderly (in the institutions, the family and the company in general)
with respect to the women (cf the book of Natasha Henry: heavy guys or lustful paternalism )
with respect to the young people and of the teenagers (in the school system, in family or in other social places)
with respect to the unemployed or of the people in social difficulty (in the political discourse or the institutions)
with respect to the patients (from the physical or mental point of view) (In the institutions of health, psychiatry, therapeutic assistance)
with respect to the employees and workers in the company (employers' paternalism, management)
between joint
between parents and children, even after the children became adult!

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