Fanny Dargent: the adolescent poorly received: death drive and institution

Using a clinical account of a lengthy hospitalization in a psychiatric ward, the author focuses on the double function of transference repetition, examined through the prism of regression. The effects of regression, which are both harmful and binding, will be analyzed, with particular attention to instances of sadomasochistic acting as a way out of melancholic identification.

Adolescence, 2019, 37, 2, 281-288.