Psychoanalytically-oriented therapeutic arrangements involving digital mediation have been the object of study for several years now. This article will show how a remote digital setting was cobbled together during the lockdown and the transference and counter-transference issues that this entailed. The effects of a therapeutic framework created using a video game played remotely will be explored in the analysis of the echoes of the pubertary process of the adolescent patient.
The use of psychoactive substances in adolescence enables one to experiment with what the psyche cannot approach. For Max, a gifted boy, drug use is more than a need for freedom, it is a way of defining his identity and facing the violence of the pubertary process. His drug use has a mediating function that will come to be part of a therapeutic relationship, especially in his experience of limits and of writing as sublimation.
Adolescence, 2020, 38, 1, 39-50.
Revue semestrielle de psychanalyse, psychopathologie et sciences humaines, indexée AERES au listing PsycINFO publiée avec le concours du Centre National du Livre et de l’Université de Paris Diderot Paris 7