Suicidal overdose, running away from home and scarification are frequent acting conducts in adolescence. Like other rupturing conducts, we conceive of these corporeal figurabilities anchored, in both form and substance, much more on the side of psychical
Archives de catégorie : ENG – Perversion ? – 2006 T. 24 n°3
ARNOUX DOMINIQUE J. : THE FEELING OF NULLITY
The account of three consultations concerning an arrogant teen-ager with a feeling of nullity enables us to consider the psychoanalytical process. Place is given to the psychoanalyst’s work of thought, about the emotional states of the subject that emerge in the treatment, but also those of the parents in the initial consultations. There is violence because of an attributive judgment coming from the parental objects in earliest childhood, which the adolescent unwittingly picks up, a fate that we regard as a clash between infancy and adolescence. We describe a concept – the distress of object – and reflect upon the feeling of nullity so frequent at this age.
TISSERON SERGE : THE NEW STAKES OF NARCISSISM
Virtual spaces are particularly well-suited to auto-therapeutic uses, especially for suffering personalities. At the same time, these spaces foster the construction of a new culture in which youngsters attempt to construct the landmarks that are missing in their daily lives
EIGUER ALBERTO : CAN ONE SPEAK OF PERVERSION IN ADOLESCENCE ?
»The author first considers the analysis of this question by pointing out two of the clinician’s stumbling blocks : the difficulty of speaking about psychic structure in the teenager, given the mobility of his mental functioning ; and the association of certain aspects of the crisis of adolescence with a revival of the infantile polymorphic perverse phase. Secondly, he studies three specific clinical situations : defensive movements of a perverse nature ; sexual and moral perversions which appear at this age ; perverse links where a paedophile, incestuous, corrupting or perverse-narcissistic adult takes as object a teenager, who becomes his victim-accomplice.»
GUTTON PHILIPPE :ADOLESCENCE UNMASKED
»The positions commonly designated as perverse « (Freud) are seldom transitory lasting organisations, definitive of the pubertaire. The author argues that perversions have their origin in the pubertaire. They come from a disavowal of otherness specifically as it is symbolized in the « third party « or parental subject of the transference that ordinarily presides in adolescence. The result of this is the repetition of a brute genitality (or of its derivatives : addiction, certain eating disorders and violent behaviours), which is unelaborated and allied with the drive to control. The emancipation of the Superego submits the adolescent to the collective Superego and to ideologies that confront and judge him.»
BONNET GÉRARD : TRANSITORY PERVERSION IN ADOLESCENCE
»The notion of transitory perversion was used fifty years ago about an adolescent in an article by R. Lebovici that was commented upon and discussed by J. Lacan in his seminar and in his Écrits. The author shows how this notion got lost in the meandering discussions about adult perversion that arose afterwards. However, it is particularly useful now, when there is a tendency to prejudge a subject’s future on the basis of his childhood or adolescent behaviour. We can see that it attests to difficulties in making certain messages prevail over sexual expression in the proper sense, and is a prerequisite for sexual identification. Qualifying the perversion as transitory « is enough to signify that it is not a perversions in the same sense as in the adult, though it nevertheless has much to teach us about adult perversion.»