Partially liberated in adult discourse, homosexuality continues to be stigmatized in the world of young males, in so far as it reflects that part of feminity unbearable at the age of virility. It signifies how much the discovery of such a sexual orientation in adolescents of 11-15 years old remains a trial to overcome.
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Catherine Ternynck: clinical study of female homosexuality in adolescence
Could certain female homosexual encounters have a dimension which provide structure ? Could they help certain young girls to extricate themselves from erotic bonds which were maintained with their mothers for narcissistic purposes ? Could they have a leverage effect, of turning again towards heterosexuality ? In this case, how can we explain that in their internal organization, certain adolescents resort to such a solution while others involved in the same psychic work, seem able to do without it ?
This article tries to bring out a dynamic common to the most diverse homosexual movements, from the most ordinary to the most pathological during female adolescence. Thus it envisages a homosexual transitional passage, a space of experience enabling an elaborative resumption of the separation and an introjective renewal of the feminine qualities of the mother.
Ludovic Gadeau: figure of father’s affectation during adolescence
The author analyses a process through which the question of father is modified in adolescence. This process, named affectation of father, must be understood through its articulations with the Œdipus complex, and concerns the contingent father as much as the adolescent. The position of father (symbolical position) is normally supported by two complementary levels : an institutional dimension and a subjective dimension. The emphasis is placed on subjective appropriation of the question of the father-being in adolescent process. Two paradigmatic figures – the sacrifice of Isaac, Noah and his sons – give us examples of the affectation of father, through which the author studies the basic components of the subjective appropriation of father-being.
Philippe Pierre Tédo: a directed abusive experience
The author explains the pathway of an adolescent heavily invested in a impassioned homosexual relation.When he was persuaded that he was betrayed, he attempted suicide and was rapidly hospîtalized.
The elaboration around that moment of crisis led him under the sign of the transfer, to especially question his traumatic infantile experience reorganized during puberty. The work took him towards the identity quest regarding projective and destructive patental figures. The abusive prepubertal sexual experience, in its dimension of criminal reality, came up to intensify an early abusive experience that he attempted to reconstruct. Faced with the scope of the work to accomplish, he chose to leave the couch to hasten towards repetition, to behaviours organized in a perverse manner, which questioned the future of this boy on a psychopathological plan.
Alix Bernard: the choice of the homosexual object and belonging to the deaf community
Several observations collected during research conducted on the sexual behavior of deaf subjects confronted with AIDS, emphasize the frequency of partners with normal hearing chosen by deaf homosexuals. By using the thorough analysis of the speech of a young deaf homosexual man we will see how this object choice can be considered as a stage in the work adolescens and understand it as a homoerotic initiation which restores a phallic mirror image.
François Pommier: from parental passion to nascent homosexuality
The comparison of clinical situations of two men having relations of a homosexual type in adolescence leads one to comprehend nascent homosexuality in relation to the disarray of the adolescent confronted with the language of parental passion. It results from this study, that if the homosexual act in adolescense consists of seeking another self mirrored outside the self, it is essentially as a function of the image of the parents merged into one that constitutes this act. The homosexual relationship in adolescence might not be built so much on following a process of similarity, as in organizing itself around a confrontation with another, different from himself and essentially enigmatic.
Anna Victoi: extreme feminity-orpheus and the magic theatre
This article explains one of the objects of study of the author; the homosexual process of psychic development.
Such a process includes the double of the self, the primary and preoedipal homosexualities as well as the construction of the fantasy « the female relation with the father » in adolescence (oedipal homosexuality). A clinical example (the extreme femininity of a 15 year old adolescent) illustrates the reflection on the construction and the continuity of the homosexuel process.
Marie José del Volgo, Roland Gori: the birth of a homosexual passion and the failure of its repression
Mr V. was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and we met him in the context of an open consultation in the department which receives patients with corporal complaints, whatever the diagnosis. The overwhelming event in Mr V’s life ( his first name means life in FRENCH), stems from a dentist’s root canal operation on his healthy teeth. In the aftermath of this shattering event, an encounter with a man during the same year that Mr V became the father of a son, his words led us in the direction of what could have engendered the psychic conflict and caused the failure of his repression of a homosexuality that the subject could neither represent or integrate. His homosexual passion, unknown and repressed, had led him to a physical and psychic decline as well as to catastrophic complaints contributing to an impasse in a life, up to that moment, without problems. In the staging of his words, the events of the encounter took on a sense, informing him about the homosexuality evoked by paternal words and the failure of his repression.
André Brousselle: impassioned movements and impassioned transference psychoses
The study of the case of M.C.Aubray since the vertex of impassioned transference psychoses have enabled us to emphasize the denial of heterosexuality through the incandescent focussing on the affect, that of the monstrous part of the body, the emmeshing of the Oedipus Complex and the archaic. The question « does analysis kindle or extinguish passions? » in adolescents is reviewed.
Marie Christine Aubray: Sabine
The impassioned movements of transference are illustrated by the presentation of a cure of an adolescent girl suffering from spina-bifida.
Hate of her pubertal body, fear of not feeling loved, badly experienced secondary identifications are condensed into an impassioned transference as an image of a femininity aspired by homosexuality, between rejection and idealization.