Daniel Sibertin-Blanc, Christian Mille : the adolescent unfit for consumption in the face of parents’ desire to consume him…

The « adolescent not for consumption » applies to a large number of adolescents struggling against parents who abuse their power by exploiting them to the point of denying their status as subject. Many of these adolescents succumb to self-destructive behaviors in order to spare their parents, the fundamental targets of their violence. Others escape this restriction and manage to preserve the process of subjectivation. They show that there can be solutions that might help keep the others from becoming consumable.

Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°4, pp. 851-859.