A partir de una experiencia de acogida de adolescentes quienes practican la prostitución, las autoras proponen una reflexión después de lo que se desarrolló en la escena institucional. Ellas interrogan las relaciones entre el control, la institución y el meta cuadro social e invitan a entender el lugar particular que conllevan esos ataques del cuerpo adolescente en relación con las experiencias traumáticas anteriores.
Adolescence, 2024, 42, 1, 87-99.
In additions, the body that is “controlled” a restrained object; the control here is its “imprisonment”. What the addict, particularly the adolescent, is fleeing, is affective dependence and the re-sexualization in puberty of his or her Oedipal bonds and transferences; such behavior is a sign of being controlled by a dependent relationship, the relation to the pregenital and pre-Oedipal Superego, which frequently causes an unconscious sense of guilt.
Adolescence, 2024, 42, 1, 141-152.
Understanding the phenomena of control in the adolescent requires a deep dive into the today’s virtual world. The main formal change linked to our modern world is mastery of the image, of imaginary museums, as a way of shaping the body image. Whipping out the cultural object that is the smartphone acts as a shield to protect against certain moments in speaking and can potentially become a relationship object in the encounter between the adolescent and the clinician.
Adolescence, 2024, 42, 1, 129-140.
Using three cases drawn from research on the subjectivation of adolescent mothers in Martinique, this article analyses how motherhood can help raise awareness about possible ways out of the relation of control. The participants’trajectories have to do with boundaries and with affective deficiencies, reminding us of the importance of intersubjective spaces in providing support, encouraging speech, and helping bring about the process of re-empowerment that leads to subjectivation.
Adolescence, 2024, 42, 1, 101-113.
Using experience in a center for adolescent girls who engage in prostitution, the authors offer some thoughts about what happened at the institutional level. They investigate the relationships between control, the institution and the social meta-framework, and suggest that the particular place of these adolescent attacks on the adolescent body be understood in relation to past traumatic experiences.
Adolescence, 2024, 42, 1, 87-99.
In A Girl’s Story, A. Ernaux ends the fragmented story of her adolescence with the revelation that she was assaulted the first time she had sex. This event, the repetition and outcome of childhood traumas whose sexual origin is diluted by the author in the socius, triggers a phenomenon of passionate control laden with symptoms. Subjectivation through literary sublimation is both the subject matter and matrix of this work, and transforming the control into a cultural object that can be shared.
Adolescence, 2024, 42, 1, 71-85.
Using a clinical case, we will argue that the violent sexual act is a condensed expression of an adolescent process punctuated by control and attempts to break free. Based on the analysis of transference movements, we will develop the idea that this act attests to an attempt to break free from (narcissistic and objectal) confinement, an attempt that transference will try to support, put to work, and transform on the way towards symbolization.
Adolescence, 2024, 42, 1, 57-69.
Looking at Freud’s adolescence and his passionate friendships, this article will explore a quest for an alter ego that can regress to the status of narcissistic “controlling” doubles. This can produce a narcissistic wound, as otherness is no longer shown to complete the ego, but to be intolerably different from and independent of it. Moreover, the implications of this can be seen in Freud’s relationship with his daughter Anna.
Adolescence, 2024, 42, 1, 13-27.
A parricidal passage to the act in adolescence necessitates a psychiatric and psychopathological evaluation. After-effects of the processing of the Oedipus complex in particular are brought into play in both the adolescent and the clinicians, in whom the therapeutic process can be hindered by fascination and control. The perverse aspect is present as a defensive organization to shore up the porous boundary between inside and outside, fantasy and reality.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 1, 83-95.
The notion of violence in psychopathology has mainly to do with the amount of excitation that is unleashed. When thinking about violence in adolescence we must consider what has upset the adolescent’s economy to the point of overwhelming psychical resources. At this time of life, there is a conjunction between the sources of internal excitations and of excessive external stimulation, while investments of relations with the parents no longer have the same role in the psychical economy, hence the “trauma of adolescence”.
Adolescence, 2019, 37, 2, 225-232.