Archives par mot-clé : Sexuality

Nathalie Barabé: abuse of the group by the institutionalized adolescent

Institutions welcome the intrapsychic processes of adolescents, one of which is the appropriation of a private space, by changing the usual supports, which leads the youngsters and the professionals to the dynamic co-creation of differentiated space and boundaries. After recalling the symbolism of a space of one’s own in adolescence, the author presents difficulties relating to the group and certain defense mechanisms used, which are also found in classic, as well as specialized, institutions.

Adolescence, 2025, 43, 2, 337-349.

Philippe Givre: abused adolescence, excised feminity

In an obstetrics and gynecology service involving young women of African origin who are victims of genital excision and forced marriage, clinical treatments enable these women to retrace the traumatic experiences that led them to exile themselves. Through this work of historicization and elaboration, which aims to attenuate post-traumatic effects, one can discern, beyond the conscious motives and imperatives of survival, the role played by unconscious drive movements that have contributed to adolescents’ impulse to leave their family and cultural milieu.

Adolescence, 2025, 43, 2, 297-310.

Serge Hefez: crossing through gender, crossing through fantasy

In studies on trans identity, sexuality is still largely unexplored territory. While sex and gender cover heterogenous data, it is hard not to hear the intertwining questions. The author relies on what transitioning or gender-fluid youths, or those who seeking to escape being categorized as man/woman, homo/hetero, cis/trans, are saying about their sexual practices. How does the agency of these bodies undergoing transformation fit into the development of our theories?

Adolescence, 2023, 41, 2, 311-323.

Marion Haza-Pery : psychosexuality of porn and #porn on social media

Since the dawn of the digital, classic representations of sexuality have been displaced on the web. Porn has thus appeared, with its increasingly trafficked images. Children and adolescents are confronted with these unfiltered, sometimes traumatic images. How do social media deal with these images in order to protect them? In what ways has porn evolved? What is one to think about the emergence of #porn on social media, as it relates to entry into the adult world?

Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 281-293.

Anaïs Lotte: feminine, violence et disfigurement

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.

Adolescence, 2019, 37, 1, 85-95.

Michael Chocron, Hélène Krieger-Denou: autisms and the adolescent process

Few studies in the field of autism up till now have attempted to describe how the adolescent process acts on its subjects. In this article, we offer a reading of some fundamental concepts about adolescence from the work of Freud and Philippe Gutton in light of knowledge about autism based on the works of G. Haag, R. Roussillon, D. Meltzer, M. Rhode et D. Anzieu that help understand archaic functioning.

Adolescence, 2018, 36, 2, 363-378.

Jacques Dayan: the puzzle of female juvenile delinquency: an open field for research

Compared with their male peers, girls commit few delinquent acts. But crimes and misdemeanors are not the only expression of violence and transgression that girls must deal with, either actively or passively. The various forms raise the question of whether certain modes of violent or non-violent transgression are specific to females and how they should be handled by the social welfare and judicial systems. This semiological puzzle is an open field for new research.

Adolescence, 2018, 36, 1, 13-21.

Élise Ricadat: adolescence, cancer and loves

In the context of grave illness, the specific qualities of the work of ordinary adolescence are tinted with problems inherent to the sick body, especially the control of the biological dimension and its lethalness. Two recent novels help us to understand how the resulting psychical and fantasy configurations infiltrate pubertary reorganizations in which appear issues of the sexual, sexuality, and romantic love in adolescence.

Adolescence, 2016, 34, 3, 645-650.

Thomas Aichhorn: “freud before freud”, on sigismund/sigmund freud as a secondary school student

Focusing on the time of middle school and high school, the author revisits Freud’s adolescence using texts and documents that have not been published in France. These documents, like the few thoughts written down in the young Freud’s school journal, also place Freud in the political context of his time. The central hypothesis of this article holds that Freud was an adolescent confronted with intense passions which are related to certain discoveries linked to the foundation of psychoanalysis.

Adolescence, 2014, 32, 3, 621-640.