»The author first considers the analysis of this question by pointing out two of the clinician’s stumbling blocks : the difficulty of speaking about psychic structure in the teenager, given the mobility of his mental functioning ; and the association of certain aspects of the crisis of adolescence with a revival of the infantile polymorphic perverse phase. Secondly, he studies three specific clinical situations : defensive movements of a perverse nature ; sexual and moral perversions which appear at this age ; perverse links where a paedophile, incestuous, corrupting or perverse-narcissistic adult takes as object a teenager, who becomes his victim-accomplice.»
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GUTTON PHILIPPE :ADOLESCENCE UNMASKED
»The positions commonly designated as perverse « (Freud) are seldom transitory lasting organisations, definitive of the pubertaire. The author argues that perversions have their origin in the pubertaire. They come from a disavowal of otherness specifically as it is symbolized in the « third party « or parental subject of the transference that ordinarily presides in adolescence. The result of this is the repetition of a brute genitality (or of its derivatives : addiction, certain eating disorders and violent behaviours), which is unelaborated and allied with the drive to control. The emancipation of the Superego submits the adolescent to the collective Superego and to ideologies that confront and judge him.»
BONNET GÉRARD : TRANSITORY PERVERSION IN ADOLESCENCE
»The notion of transitory perversion was used fifty years ago about an adolescent in an article by R. Lebovici that was commented upon and discussed by J. Lacan in his seminar and in his Écrits. The author shows how this notion got lost in the meandering discussions about adult perversion that arose afterwards. However, it is particularly useful now, when there is a tendency to prejudge a subject’s future on the basis of his childhood or adolescent behaviour. We can see that it attests to difficulties in making certain messages prevail over sexual expression in the proper sense, and is a prerequisite for sexual identification. Qualifying the perversion as transitory « is enough to signify that it is not a perversions in the same sense as in the adult, though it nevertheless has much to teach us about adult perversion.»
COURTY BRICE : FUR UNDER THE ROSES
»Du Poil sous les roses (Fur under the roses) depicts over the course of a film the emergence of the pubertaire in a boy and a girl, from the initial vacillation of identity and desire, through the lability of psychical defences that they can then establish, until the resolution of their feeling of strangeness. Their path leads them toward each other at the end of the journey of sexual difference, that is of the affiliation with a sex, but also of the recognition of the desire of the Other, outside of the family environment. In this transition, the language of childhood is infiltrated by that of the adult; confusion gives way to an imperious work of translation. The gaze must arm itself with screens (camera, microscope) to filter desire in the world, the other and oneself.»
RICHARD FRANÇOIS : ENCOUNTERING THE ADOLESCENT IN THE TREATMENT OF AN ADULT WITHIN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTICAL PRACTICE
In this article new forms of contradiction-conflict resulting from changes in the perception of limits that psychoanalysts encounter in their practice today are conceived from the perspective of the notions of work of the negative and of subjectivation
TURCAT SOPHIE : VOLVER A LA VIDA
»Through a new portrait of his country, P. Almodovar allows us to discover the hazards of the culture of the secret. He centers his story on different women from the same family in their attempts to confront the problems their men have caused them. Each needs to understand a part of her past that is at first hidden and later unveiled. Woman is fascinating, as are the bonds that unite women within a single family. The past returns and recurs in their lives; the fact of facing up to it helps them to make decisive steps.»
MONZANI STEFANO : ADOLESCENCE, THEATER IN THREE SCENES
»The theatrical work of B.-M. Koltès illustrates several aspects of the symbolic crisis which characterize our modernity in relation to the adolescent scene. In the work of this author, we witness the development of the pubertaire experienced as a major trauma by the family, ruled mainly by the confusion of generations and by narcissistic filiation. Caught in a developmental impasse and without narcissistic support from the parents, the Koltèsian youth imagines that he can found an a-genealogical community with other « brothers « and thus elude the questioning of filiation. But outside his family he finds only hatred and violence. All in all, the social body to body merely reproduces, like a mirror-image, the violence of the pubertaire scene and that of the incestuous family.»
ROMANO HELENE: TO FEEL PAIN, TO HURT ONESELF AND TO DIE
»Facing this confusing period of the passage childhood to adulthood, faced with the painful truth of « non-existence « and the inability to overstep the child’s body and child’s psyche, the teenager may act this out by self-aggression, in which suicide is paradoxically the chief existential claim. We propose to investigate this suicidal position and the repercussions of a suicidal act upon adults using an example of intervention with both students and staff of a school subsequent to the suicide of two students.»
SUARD MICHEL : LIVING AFTER INCEST
»This article presents the evolution of the family situation of a man imprisoned for sex crimes and the three girls who were victims of these incestuous relations. The family therapy undertaken during the imprisonment and after the conditional release enabled – once the father admitted the deeds – a reconstruction of the family and true reparations for the victims who no longer wish to be considered as « victims «.»
CAZENAVE MARIE-THERESE: VIOLENT ATTACKS AGAINST BONDS AND COUNTER-TRANSFERENCE
»Attempting to build relationships within « families with broken bonds « requires the therapist to maintain flexibility in the counter-transference despite all opposition, in order to avoid the traps of repetition. Amidst the confusion of projections, counter-transference guarantees the therapist the stability of his identity, in spite of the variations, sometimes brutal, to which he is exposed. By giving meaning to what he feels, he avoids acting out, which would exclude him, and evaluates the reality of immediate danger. Thus avoiding an emergency intervention, he allows a transformation to begin.»