Suite à un agir d’homicide sur leurs enfants, nous avons rencontré trois femmes hospitalisées pour préserver la répétition d’un acte d’autolyse. Comme nombre de parents dans notre contexte sociétal, elles se sont reconnues dans la notion de « parentalité bienveillante ». Ces passages à l’acte interviennent suite à une annonce similaire, celle qui renvoie à l’enfant cassé. Nous proposons ici une lecture psychocriminologique de l’agir filicide dans un contexte de parentalité bienveillante à partir du concept du double.

This paper describes three women who, following acts of filicide and attempted suicide, had been hospitalized to reduce suicidal risk while in detention. À similar event preceded all three homicidal acts: the implementation of an additional medical, educational or paramedical support, or the failure to do so. We questioned their parenting in relation to social discourse around positive parenting. These women described having imagined an “ideal child” which was free of poor transmission and who would restore them in return. In an environment where separation from their romantic conjugal partners was not an option, the women viewed their child as “broken” and resorted to action. This led us to the hypothesis that the mother-child relationship referred to the concept of double; this latter was first reflexive and supporting but disrupted the maternal psyche and its unrecognized obscure zone with the announcement of the child being « broken ».