Using an encounter with an adolescent girl who committed an act of violence directed at the face, this article will discuss the role of the face and that of the disfiguring movement in the sexuation process of the adolescent girl. In its continuity with the body, the face is subjected to the violence of the pubertary process and to the demands of the work of the feminine. Failure to integrate a sexually differentiated face can lead to anxieties of disfigurement and defenses relating to the face, or else to acts of disfiguring violence.
The article reflects on the specific ways of caring for adolescents who have committed acts of sexual violence and are in court-ordered treatment. Such treatments and the paradoxical forms of subjective expression they entail require us to re-think our settings and our conceptual tools in order to construct a therapeutic environment. The cases we present show how our thinking comes to resonate with feelings of breakdown, annihilation, and the possibility of leading these patients to work through psychic experiences.
I will discuss the treatment of two adolescents presenting a heightened oedipal crisis linked to early disturbances in the relation with the primal object, and for whom the use of pornographic representations and practices is a defense against the traumatic threat of incestuous attraction to the mother and against the genital relation, which brings issues of the relation with another person. This regressive, defensive sexuality touches many adolescents to different degrees at the onset of the crisis of adolescence.
This article focuses on an unusually exacerbated interplay of transference seduction in a teenage girl who is intensely sexually excited and who pursues unrequited loves following her father’s sudden death. The analyst’s response to this excitation and to the patient’s imperious demand for love will create a scenario wherein the seduction fantasy can be differentiating and organizing, alongside the fantasy of the father’s murder.
Using two clinical vignettes (one from an institutional therapeutic treatment, and the other from an individual treatment), the author investigates issues underlying the apparently “liberated” sexuality of two older adolescents: a tight, reciprocal clinging to the mother, in the absence of internalization of parental imagos that would enable true individuation. He calls attention to the psychopathological and therapeutic consequences of this.
This article will examine the ways that adolescents use the psychic back-and-forth between masculinity and femininity to develop a deformed Oedipus complex. Bisexuality, especially in adolescence, includes a harmful regressive tendency towards a lack of differentiation. This can be usefully deployed within a therapeutic treatment.
The authors introduce different angles for thinking about adolescent sexualities. Have changes in society – social media, the recognition of minority sexualities – changed the representations and behaviors of adolescents? Treatments, institutional care, and cultural objects, viewed through the prism of a study of transference, offer valuable ground for reflecting on the complex relations between sexuality, violence and identity issues.
Dans Les poétiques du corps, Sylvie Le Poulichet poursuit son exploration des registres cliniques de l’informe ou de l’impersonnalité. L’accent est ici porté sur le rôle des terreurs archaïques et sur les défauts de transmission à propos des origines, lesquels vont tantôt être la cause de défauts de « prise de corps », tantôt être à l’origine d’identifications d’angoisse ou encore être responsables de la création de théories fantastiques à l’adolescence.
L’auteure aborde l’hypersexualité en tant qu’impossibilité répétée de contrôler un comportement sexuel visant à procurer du plaisir et par sa poursuite malgré ses conséquences négatives sur le plan physique, psychologique et social. Nymphomaniac(L. Von Trier), Jeune et Jolie(F. Ozon), La Tête haute (E. Bercot) ainsi que deux adolescentes ayant subi des abus sexuels ou des abandons dans leur enfance permettront de revenir sur les origines traumatiques de l’hypersexualité à l’adolescence.
Le parcours de transition de la jeune Lara dans le film Girl, de Lukas Dhont, inspire une réflexion sur la représentation du corps des sujets trans au-delà des productions artistiques. Le présent article propose une analyse de cette question en l’articulant avec des travaux sur la production de récits sur la transidentité.
Adolescence, 2019, 37, 1, 157-163.
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