What is a body behind the screen living through? The screen both reveals and masks. Through two clinical vignettes of sessions conducted through video-conferencing, this article will explore the question the presence and circulation of meaning on both sides of the screen. Is seeing the world while seated in front of a screen really the same thing as taking part in this world? Must one choose between seeing and indwelling?
Adolescence, 2020, 40, 2, 295-308.
Since the dawn of the digital, classic representations of sexuality have been displaced on the web. Porn has thus appeared, with its increasingly trafficked images. Children and adolescents are confronted with these unfiltered, sometimes traumatic images. How do social media deal with these images in order to protect them? In what ways has porn evolved? What is one to think about the emergence of #porn on social media, as it relates to entry into the adult world?
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 281-293.
In the context of the court-ordered placement of a child/adolescent, creating some distance can bring about some psychic alterations not only in him, but in his family, and it may modify to his symbolic place with the family structure. This specific psychic work, based on physical distancing, has been modified in the digital era through the interference of different degrees of presence introduced by possibilities for remote communication.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 271-279.
N. Enkelaar interviews M. Stora, specialist of virtual worlds, about the role social networks in identity construction, using as a starting point the book Réseaux (a)sociaux, published in 2021. This leads to a dialogue about the ideals conveyed by these networks, their paradoxes and the way in which they encounter adolescent issues. Social networks serve as both a support and a prison for the adolescent in the making, and their many facets are explored here.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 259-269.
Contemporary treatment brings the patient closer and closer into relation with images, digitalized self-representations and technology in general. This relation has an influence, particularly in adolescence, over the construction of body image, identity and social relations. Moreover, this relationship in turn influences the space of the therapeutic relation. To help understand this, this paper will present six new modes of transference.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 243-257.