This study deals with the multilingualism competence of teenagers of Portuguese origin from Luxembourg. It shows that teenagers have a command of functionally multilingualism competence: they have different levels of command of French, German, Portuguese and Luxembourg language and they attribute to these languages different functions.
Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°4, pp. 887-894.
The « langue des cités » constitutes a contemporary myth. This paper, with particular reference to a corpus of newspaper articles, presents the main frame of this myth and then gives a contribution to its release. To this end, this paper presents the results of a research on language practices of young speakers attending training centers for their social and professional insertion, on the outskirts of Paris. It stresses the characteristics of their speech and reflects the social complexity of their language use in the interactional process during training sessions.
Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°4, pp. 873-885.
Based on the example of the Français Contemporain des Cités (FCC), this article presents a comparative and contrastive study of the language of young people and an analysis from a translatological point of view. The corpus selected – two novels and one film from the Paris Banlieues – comprises the original post-production script, the German dubbing transcripts and the German subtitles of the movie L’Esquive, as along with the two original novel texts and the German translation of one of them, Kiffe kiffe demain. The study discusses the difficulties encountered when attempting to transpose such culturally specific texts and proposes possible solutions, whereby the main problems are found to lie in the area of lexis and phraseology.
Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°4, pp. 859-871.
In France, the so-called Z.U.S (Zones Urbaines Sensibles, meaning Sensitive Social Areas) are places of the social deprivation. Among others, young people live there, often descendant of immigrants. The language they speak shows clearly they belong to the world of the suburbs, as it contains the typical linguistic forms, the so-called F.C.C. (Français Contemporain des Cités, or French Suburbs Language). A certain social behaviours, typical for their environment, are reflected in these forms that also demonstrate an existence of the social and reactive violence, a straight consequence of the previous. All these can be seen in the suburbs of the French cities.
Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°4, pp. 849-857.
On the one hand, institutions for adolescents accept all sorts of demands; on the other hand, the extension of delinquency has the effect of socializing crime. Consequently, the therapist may accept situations at the crossroads where the penal, the clinical and the social meet, as in the case of a young criminal we received. There is a jarring of usual clinical practice, as the practitioner must be able to cope with the possibility of recidivism. We give an account of the clinical perspective adopted in this case, one which emphasized fantasy rather than drives, and which seemed to us a more honest way of accepting our social responsibility.
Adolescence, 2013, 30, 4, 945-956.
Using the clinical treatment of an incarcerated adolescent girl, the author considers how the commission of a violent sex act is a failure of the « work of passivity » leading to the murder of the feminine, what the author proposes to call « femininicide ». This slaying of the feminine is a response to the threat of being invaded by drives, which is strongly felt at the particular time of life which is adolescence. The article retraces the difficulties of Sonia’s clinical treatment during her time in the penal system. The passage by way of the act is envisioned as a scene bringing together and condensing internal psychical elements that cannot be organized or linked and threaten identity with rupture.
Adolescence, 2013, 30, 4, 935-944.
This article presents a brief clinical vignette with a young murderer, who had presented behavioral disorders in adolescence and was refused treatment on the grounds that no demand had been made, to discuss and critique the concept of « demand ». The authors give several reasons why it is impossible for these adolescents to verbalize a demand for treatment, while their behavior is in itself equivalent to a demand unconsciously addressed to the other. Theories which hypothesize the specific nature of the language of the act in adolescence are recalled: these allow us to think about the therapeutic settings and arrangements that would be necessary to care for the psychical suffering of these subjects.
Adolescence, 2013, 30, 4, 919-933.
Crimes and misdemeanors are, according to Durkheim, accepted terms that come from the shared conscience. But how is this conscience forged and passed on ? What is the criminal act ? Is every antisocial act due to pathology ? Is there an epistemology common to the field of sociology and psychology ? We will attempt to address these questions and their implications within the field of juvenile justice and the care of minors.
Adolescence, 2013, 30, 4, 881-917.
Since June 2007, a medical-psychological staff (UCSA-SMPR) has been practicing in the juvenile penitentiary of the Rhône-Alpes region. A psychiatrist and a psychologist propose to review this experience as a way of investigating temporal aspects of treatment and the issues specific to this institutional setting. What are the goals of treatment ? How should we conceive of the care-providers’ position within an incarcerating structure, where treatment is supposed to be an « auxiliary » to a repressive disciplinary system ? How can we enable an elaboration of the subject’s and the institution’s acts ? These reflections are at the heart of a practice wherein professional identity is often mishandled.
Adolescence, 2013, 30, 4, 869-879.
This article attempts to analyze issues of the psychical functioning of adolescent delinquents sentenced to Educative Detention Centers. The paths taken, courses of action and emotional links are problematic for these youths who are compelled by their detention to accept being distanced from their figures of reference. To deal with this, should they let themselves be reduced to their acts or to the documents written about them ? Subjects of polysemic acts, they interpret in different ways their relations with their parents. The article is based on clinical interviews with thirty-six adolescents in detention. Work on the link will be necessary, and this work must be threefold, dealing with the family link, the peer-group link, and institutional links.
Adolescence, 2013, 30, 4, 857-868.