This article will offer an analysis of the silence adolescents impose on their therapist within group psychotherapy. The authors hypothesize that this silence is a projection of adolescents’ archaic anxieties and fantasies of devouring and incorporation onto their therapist. The latter, by offering him or herself as a transforming receptacle, opens the way for a more secondarized kind of psychical elaboration.
Adolescence, 2025, 43, 1, 101-112.
Though being a » young homosexual » does not mean a specific risk of being contaminated by Aids, it may be studied as a priviledged figure of the psychological stakes liable to guide an adequate prevention, notably as regards the reference to the Oedipian father. Gabriel’s discourse, coming from a research dealing with the unconscious dimension of prevention, enables to stress a problematic » angelism » that may be considered as a real risk factor and questions reversely the present politics of prevention as well as the position of the psychologist in front of a youth on the register of his sexuality.