Today’s adolescent is caught up in what could be called hypermodernity. With the arrival of technology, new ways of acting out have appeared, such as digital violence. Using a clinical case, the authors will examine digital acts of violence from the angle of psychoanalysis. More specifically, they will discuss the way that familial lack will be displaced onto a new scene, that of the digital, in an attempt to restore adolescent limits.
Adolescence, 2020, 38, 1, 103-117.
In self-cutting there is an incision that bleeds and leaves a more or less visible and permanent scar, which is invested with a combination of shame, aesthetic experience and intense power. The author will show how scars are invested in the context of what we call boundary issues and boundary work. This may be trophic, sustaining a transformative process in adolescents, especially through the scar; or it may be detrimental, when there is a sterile repetition of the act of self-cutting.
Adolescence, 2020, 38, 1, 11-23.