Every adolescent, at every generation, is violently caught within a social context and implied within a problematics of transmission and filiation, of debt and heritage. Whether they be alone or in a group, adolescents are actors/witnesses introducing their objects, their discourses and their types of behaviour in places where they go through. Adolescence is an unstable category, without any specific seat and which may either be appropriated or melancholized. The adolescent scene, vulnerable as it is, questions forcibly the institutions and demands that a potential space should be fit enabling the transformation of both the psychological and the social that are implied within such a passage. It is a turning point where collective and individual stakes are condensed and where violences swarm and become cristallized. The adolescent scene thus becomes a violent dramatization at the crossroads between the psychological and the social.
Archives par mot-clé : Social scene
MONZANI STEFANO : ADOLESCENCE, THEATER IN THREE SCENES
»The theatrical work of B.-M. Koltès illustrates several aspects of the symbolic crisis which characterize our modernity in relation to the adolescent scene. In the work of this author, we witness the development of the pubertaire experienced as a major trauma by the family, ruled mainly by the confusion of generations and by narcissistic filiation. Caught in a developmental impasse and without narcissistic support from the parents, the Koltèsian youth imagines that he can found an a-genealogical community with other « brothers « and thus elude the questioning of filiation. But outside his family he finds only hatred and violence. All in all, the social body to body merely reproduces, like a mirror-image, the violence of the pubertaire scene and that of the incestuous family.»
MICHELLE CADORET : CONTEXT AND CULTURE : THE VIOLENCE OF THE ADOLESCENT SCENE
Every adolescent, at every generation, is violently caught within a social context and implied within a problematics of transmission and filiation, of debt and heritage. Whether they be alone or in a group, adolescents are actors/witnesses introducing their objects, their discourses and their types of behaviour in places where they go through. Adolescence is an unstable category, without any specific seat and which may either be appropriated or melancholized. The adolescent scene, vulnerable as it is, questions forcibly the institutions and demands that a potential space should be fit enabling the transformation of both the psychological and the social that are implied within such a passage. It is a turning point where collective and individual stakes are condensed and where violences swarm and become cristallized. The adolescent scene thus becomes a violent dramatization at the crossroads between the psychological and the social.