Este artículo, nos propone un nuevo concepto de un complejo de Edipo primario que está estructuralmente deformado por la presión de la sexualidad polimorfa infantil tanto en el desarrollo normal como en lo patológico. Correlativamente, el clivaje se considera como algo interno a cualquier represión. Un caso clínico ilustra la dialéctica de una relación psíquica incestuosa y regresiva con el objeto maternal el cual es primordial para un adolescente quién intenta constituir un referente paternal a través de fragmentos de representación del padre edipiano.
A partir de la adolescencia de Freud y sus amistades pasionales, este artículo explora la búsqueda de un alter ego que permita una regresión hacia el estatus de dobles narcisismos “bajo influencia”. Ello puede conducir a una herida en el narcisismo. La alteridad no se presenta más como una complementariedad para el yo si no, como una diferencia y una independencia intolerable. De otro lado se podrá observar las incidencias sobre su hija Anna.
The addiction object is presented as a psychical operator of subjective experience. The logic of addiction functions against a background of trauma. Through the rhythm, the cadence, of substance use, the early dysrhythmias that cause feelings of impingement can be regulated. In the psychic configurations presented here, addiction is not merely a quest for pleasure; it is positioned as a regulator of sensorial and drive activity.
In additions, the body that is “controlled” a restrained object; the control here is its “imprisonment”. What the addict, particularly the adolescent, is fleeing, is affective dependence and the re-sexualization in puberty of his or her Oedipal bonds and transferences; such behavior is a sign of being controlled by a dependent relationship, the relation to the pregenital and pre-Oedipal Superego, which frequently causes an unconscious sense of guilt.
Understanding the phenomena of control in the adolescent requires a deep dive into the today’s virtual world. The main formal change linked to our modern world is mastery of the image, of imaginary museums, as a way of shaping the body image. Whipping out the cultural object that is the smartphone acts as a shield to protect against certain moments in speaking and can potentially become a relationship object in the encounter between the adolescent and the clinician.
Analysis of sound in an adolescent boy who is prone to acoustic-verbal hallucinations leads a to a reflection on the condensation function of hallucination in adolescence, and resonates with the archaic and Oedipal registers, narcissistic and objectal issues, and, lastly, with the current outcome of these, which is between melancholic impasse and masochistic re-binding.
Using three cases drawn from research on the subjectivation of adolescent mothers in Martinique, this article analyses how motherhood can help raise awareness about possible ways out of the relation of control. The participants’trajectories have to do with boundaries and with affective deficiencies, reminding us of the importance of intersubjective spaces in providing support, encouraging speech, and helping bring about the process of re-empowerment that leads to subjectivation.
Using experience in a center for adolescent girls who engage in prostitution, the authors offer some thoughts about what happened at the institutional level. They investigate the relationships between control, the institution and the social meta-framework, and suggest that the particular place of these adolescent attacks on the adolescent body be understood in relation to past traumatic experiences.
In A Girl’s Story, A. Ernaux ends the fragmented story of her adolescence with the revelation that she was assaulted the first time she had sex. This event, the repetition and outcome of childhood traumas whose sexual origin is diluted by the author in the socius, triggers a phenomenon of passionate control laden with symptoms. Subjectivation through literary sublimation is both the subject matter and matrix of this work, and transforming the control into a cultural object that can be shared.
Using a clinical case, we will argue that the violent sexual act is a condensed expression of an adolescent process punctuated by control and attempts to break free. Based on the analysis of transference movements, we will develop the idea that this act attests to an attempt to break free from (narcissistic and objectal) confinement, an attempt that transference will try to support, put to work, and transform on the way towards symbolization.
Adolescence, 2024, 42, 1, 57-69.
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