The onset of puberty confronts adolescents with a second aesthetic conflict, and gives a second chance for the elaboration of adhesive identification. This partial or major regression can reactivate autistic cores that, if elaborated, can foster development thanks to the formation of a psychical container for emotional content. If the re-elaboration of adhesive identity and that of the aesthetic conflict cannot be made jointly, the adolescent can tip towards the pathological side : various addictions, schizoid and/or autistic defenses. The passage from two dimensions to three or even four dimensions can not be organized.
Archives par mot-clé : Identity
Delphine Scotto di Vettimo, Claude Miollan : Between Shame and Psychosis: A Reflection on Assumed Knowledge
Psychotherapeutic treatment of adolescents confronted with a psychotic experience reveals a characteristic feeling of shame. The first hypothesis formulated here addresses the existence of shame in such psychotic individuals based on archaic experience calling into question the Freudian, and classic, conceptual tool of post-Œdipal structural shame. The second hypothesis postulates that in clinical work the expression of shame as an ontological challenge against the Other represents an attempt by the subject to prove his or her existence. Our reflection focuses, through a clinical analysis, on the double occurrence of psychotic experience and a feeling of shame.
Marie-Hélène Garceau-Brodeur, Mylène Fernet, Joseph Josy Lévy, Lyne Massie, Guylaine Morin, Joanne Otis, Johanne Samson, Normand Lapointe, Jocelyne Thériault, Germain Trottier : concerning HIV/AIDS in adolescence
As a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, children have been infected, particularly through the transmission of the virus from mother to child, but thanks to progress in anti-retrovirus treatments, some of these youngsters have now reached pre-adolescence and adolescence. An exploratory study of nine adolescents in Montreal who are living with HIV/AIDS highlights the particular problems they encounter: the repercussions of announcing that they are infected, preoccupations about revealing this to their family and friends, especially the peer group, fears about establishing intimate relationships or about becoming parents, and about being sexually active and preventing disease. This exploratory study shows some of the issues they are confronted with in their psychosexual development.
David le Breton : the adolescent scene : signs of identity
Peer culture is now replacing parent culture, transmission gives way to imitation. From now on one must measure up in the eyes of others, those of one’s age group, even if one must fight one’s parents in order to do this. One of the horrors of middle school and high school recess yards is to seen as the « buffoon » by failing to obtain the group’s approval, refusing a dare, or not displaying the right « brand » of clothes or shoes. Self esteem no longer comes from espousing the unanimous values that structure the social bond, it is no longer nourished in the mirror of elders or ancestors but in that of the peer group. The necessity for representation is found in both girls and boys, but not in the same manner.
Olivier Douville : on “ ethnicized ” withdrawal in excluded adolescents
This article crosses psychoanalytical and anthropological perspectives in order to analyse the logics of social fractures in adolescence when these are experienced and legitimized in terms of “ ethnic ”or “ racial ” fractures. These demands are made into the symptom of a serious rupture in the assemblages between otherness and identity. The fate of many young people, though dedicated to entering into a shared, secular world, is here envisaged as a response to a logic of segregation.
Joëlle Bordet : modes of socialization of adolescents in low income urban housing projects and their relationship with legality
This article aims to retrace the evolution since the eighties of the relationship between youths and the economy of the drug trade and to analyze their influence on their modes of socialization. With reference to these analyses, we identify education issues, in relation to the youths themselves, their families and the professionals who have daily contact with them.
David le Breton : consuming absence : dizzying whiteness
Whiteness is a form of resignation from the self, a wish to erase oneself from an existence which has become nothing more than a sort of heavy weight. Indifference to oneself leads to self-exposure to a danger that is no longer perceived as such, since the youngster no longer inhabits himself completely. It is an unconscious form of will, not so much to die as to not be here anymore. It attests to the impossibility of being an individual and of investing oneself as the subject of one’s own existence. Whitening techniques are so many attempts to get rid of oneself in order not to have to put up with the pressures of an unbearable identity.
Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°4, pp. 841-849.
Vincent Cornalba : i, net and chat
The status of the spoken word, at the onset of adolescence, translates the contradictory identity movement out of which the « I »will be constructed. The identity idem and the identity ipse constitute the two poles from which the certitude of a subjectal definition is pronounced. An «I» that the adolescent questions by upsetting the rules of language, but also by choosing particular procedures to which the new modes of communication will enable him to give form.
Using a series of selections from a treatment, the author covers the conditions of this identity work in adolescence. It is, in essence, a self-construction. Lastly, the author insists on the importance of a psychical « aimless going » for which analytical therapy will appear as the natural matrix.
Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°4, pp. 971-982.
Dany-Robert Dufour, Marilia Amorim : language and adolescence
The authors consider the language as the place where the subjects build their identity. They examine how current post-modernity is changing our ways of speaking. They suppose that a new newspeak is showing up, changing widely the conditions of subjectivation and socialization, especially during adolescence.
Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°4, pp. 941-957.
Jean-Pierre Goudaillier : languages and linguistics practices reflected ofsocials practices of young people living in z.u.s.
In France, the so-called Z.U.S (Zones Urbaines Sensibles, meaning Sensitive Social Areas) are places of the social deprivation. Among others, young people live there, often descendant of immigrants. The language they speak shows clearly they belong to the world of the suburbs, as it contains the typical linguistic forms, the so-called F.C.C. (Français Contemporain des Cités, or French Suburbs Language). A certain social behaviours, typical for their environment, are reflected in these forms that also demonstrate an existence of the social and reactive violence, a straight consequence of the previous. All these can be seen in the suburbs of the French cities.
Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°4, pp. 849-857.