Within the framework of an educative mission in specialized prevention, the authors try to shed light on the movements elicited when supporting “unwelcome” children in their journey through adolescence. Between rearrangements and repetition compulsion, these cases draw us towards the realms of the archaic, but a way out can be found with help from a “helpful other” participating in “culture work”, in order to re-establish a bond with humanity.
Exploring love means facing up to the wounds it inflicts ; it means taking into consideration its cruelty as well as its tenderness and sensuality. Its possible consequence, sexual pleasure, will be looked here from the perspective of psychical reality, and the expression the this reality confers upon it in the Christian religion
Adolescence, 2013, T. 31, n°4, pp. 873-884.
Revue semestrielle de psychanalyse, psychopathologie et sciences humaines, indexée AERES au listing PsycINFO publiée avec le concours du Centre National du Livre et de l’Université de Paris Diderot Paris 7