Using the observation of Julien, who was “cured” of his depressive state through antidepressants, we will explore the psychic readjustments that follow this apparent “normalization”. We show that when depressive elaboration has been hindered, the adolescent process can be frozen. The disinhibition induced by the treatment exposes it to the violence of the drives and to the passage to the act. This freezing gives rise to paranoiac projects, a screen for a passive homosexual position that has not been elaborated.

Adolescence, 2026, 44, 1, 33-45.