With reference to fundamental aspects of the adolescent process, the author explores the issue of the transformation of experiences of shame at this age, their disorganization and reorganization. She emphasizes the things that contribute to the often traumatic character of shame and its impact on the subject’s narcissism, especially passivation in the face of the genital and pre-genital drive emergences of puberty, and the modifying of identifications.
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Catherine Chabert : The Past : A Passive Form ?
Using clinical fragments and meta-psychological reflections, the author advances some working hypotheses which tend to show how, in adolescence, compulsive symptomatologies aim to stop time by means of a major counter-investment of passivity. By actively refusing the effects of absence and of loss on the one hand, and those of the castration inherent to indentificatory processes on the other hand, these adolescents attempt to annul the passage of time and the changes it bears witness to.