Anne-Valérie Mazoyer: variations of passion in adolescent girls

A girl who undergoes passion believes that her feminine identity has been affirmed, as long as it is not recreational, that is, an escape. The effects of passion give rise to many trips to the clinician, not to provide a remedy (nor to calm or revive it, condemn or condone it), but rather to ensure that its form and ethics give the woman-subject access to a feminine identity, which is not to be confused with the maternal.

Adolescence, 2015, 33, 1, 61-73.