Here the author makes a distinction between functional control (whose reparative and structuring function fosters narcissism) and regressive kinds of control (which are seen in perverse aberrations). This clinical study also takes in heroic identification and the quest for a place within a genealogy, along with tyrannical, dependent, pathological, or violent adolescents and parental alienation syndrome. As an approach to these aberrations, we call attention to the function of an attraction force of the psyche.

Adolescence, 2024, 42, 1, 43-56.