The risky sexual behaviors of adolescents with a personality disorder often allow us to go back to a traumatic sexual event in childhood, whether it be an individual or a transgenerational one. As in the neurotica and the theory of fantasy, the differentiating phases of the patient’s history thus become apparent, the time of the primacy of the destructuring experience and that of the memory trace which causes the traumatic experience to be reproduced within an already destructured psyche.

Adolescence, 2022, 40, 1, 25-37.