Fantasio and Leonce, the eponymous adolescent heroes of works by de Musset and Büchner, grapple with a static temporality, synonymous with boredom, brooding, and emptiness. This temporality opens onto death, seen as the only reality once they leave the Edenic timelessness of a childhood whose symptom is the fantasy of the dead child. This frustrating relationship with time seems to be a sign of the trauma represented in adolescence by the encounter with the genital object. Death seems to be put forward as protection against the sexual, and the suspension of time seems to be the dramatic strategy developed to “delay” the dreaded amorous encounter.
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Bernard Penot : Psychoanalytical Teamwork : Return to an Early Point in the Subjectivizing Process
Psychoanalytical teamwork is recommended in the treatment of the particular form of transference that routinely occurs in the institutional treatment of young patients suffering from psychotic disorders or from behavioral pathology (borderline cases). The degree of alienation is such that repetition will tend to be induced in the other – the therapist, in this case – due to the absence of constituted fantasy in certain sectors of the patient’s psyche. It is as if the restitution (Freud, 1937) and subjective appropriation of these elements by the patient necessitated a detour through the psychical space of the caregivers (which is very trying for them), obliging them first of all to elaborate these subjective elements among themselves.
André Brousselle : The Fate of Sexual Theories of Puberty
Male pubescent sexual theories (P.S.T.) are characterized on the one hand, by being rooted in the first orgasmic experiences, wherein the release of excitation, of sperm and of germinal cells are condensed; and on the other hand, by their evolution towards different theories about fluids, one of which is economical. This transformation is followed here in an adult patient. The opposite path leads us to hypothesize that Freud’s economical theory could be derived from these pubescent sexual theories.
Daniel Marcelli : Adolescence, a Meta-theory of the Mind
In this work we offer a conceptualization that takes into account the theory of the mind, since adolescence may characterized as the age at which the subject formulates for himself a meta-theory of the mind : he invests his own thoughts with thoughts. The result of this meta-theory of the mind could be figured in the ego ideal, an instance which is known to emerge during adolescence.
Vincent Cornalba : The Moment and Désirance
The register of the moment directly poses the question of désirance and its influence in the process of subjectivation. Starting with the problem of the encounter in the libertine, the author offers an exposé of relational issues at the onset of the genital phase. The register of consensual defeat instigates the creation of an amorous, masochistic self on which the subjectal evolution will in part depend. The moment – through the effect of divestment it introduces into the encounter, but also through the effect of putting into perspective it gives rise to – gives potential to this operation which determines the genital subject.
Evelyne Gosse-Oudard : Leaving Adolescence, Ending Analysis
If the model of the infantile organization of the psychical economy is the paradigm for analytical treatment, might not the model of the end-of-adolescence process be the paradigm for the “ ending ” of the analysis ? The notion of drive for control, a constituent of the psychical apparatus, once it is differentiated from the relation of control, especially its mortifying, negative aspects, will be the basis for an exploration of the processes involved in the establishment of the subject’s narcissistic foundations and, by permitting him to free himself from an alienating relationship with the primordial object, a pre-condition for his subjectivation.
Sylvie le Poulichet : Ways of Becoming a Subject
This article attempts to shed new light on the notion of subjectivation, privileging the perspective of becoming-subject within specular transference systems. Two clinical sequences, showing these becoming-subjects first in dream figuration, and then in the passage through the negative, enable us to understand the peculiarities of identifying times.
Olivier Douville : The Subjective Basis for Time at Adolescence
After mentioning some sociological and anthropological models, the author discusses, following the work of Gutton and Rassial and his own clinical elaborations, whether the model of logical time may be usefully applied to our understanding of the various steps of adolescent temporality.
Raymond Cahn : subjectality and subjectivation
Starting with Freud’s originary distinction between subject of the ego and object of the ego, and thus between subjectal and objectal poles, subjectality is conceived of as the process that enables the emergence of a creative, autonomous self, shedding light, through their disturbances, on some essential aspects of the setting and of the counter-transference which determine the possibility or impossibility of genuine psychoanalytical work.
René Roussillon : Drive and Intersubjectivity
The author tries to conceive of a psychoanalytical conception of intersubjectivity that would respect the double reference to the unconscious and to infantile sexuality. He believes it is necessary to emphasize the “ messenger ” value of the drive and its modes of representing. Two clinical vignettes show how the drive is composed or decomposed according to the response of the other-subject object, as well as the unconscious dimensions of the messages acted out in the face-to-face setting. Then a decomposition of different “ bits ” of the experience of satisfaction opens up the question of infantile sexuality which includes the other-subject in its organization. The question of adolescence is revisited as the moment when infantile sexuality is found again, and redefined as a function of adolescent sexuality’s “ body-to-body ”, but also as the danger of confusion associated with this find.