In adolescent parlance, “You’re forcing!” is used when someone is being insistent and not taking into account the desire of the other person. The use of this expression reflects current debate about consent and the logics of domination. Starting with a consideration of the role of language in the constitution of the subject, we will integrate our theoretical references in order to explore the risks of abuse in the family and in the treatment setting. We will investigate the ethics of analysis in a society undergoing a transformation embodied by adolescent modernity.
School, both the symbolical organisation of the social body and the setting up/building up of the individual, operates on the relations between power and desire. But this way of looking at the structuring of people’s craving for knowledge must be combined with an analysis of School and of the relationships to the Other that are generated by the Academic Institution. Then this process will make it possible to assess the understanding of the Discontents of the French School Institution as the actor/promoter of a monistic republican Citizenship. In the French social system within which school plays the part of leaven, the Other must turn into the Same. Through this, we can understand how tense relationships at school are.
Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°3, pp. 655-672
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