In order to explore the coincidence of these two forms of identity crisis, adolescence and motherhood, two hypotheses are offered: one dealing with the cultural factor in the avoidance or facilitation of psychopathological disorders ; and the second considering pregnancy and motherhood as antinomic with regard to adolescent processes. These lines of thought are developed in three parts. The first, which is based on an interview with Inès, a young mother of gypsy origin, helps one to understand how the cultural space, shared with the outer social world, lends itself to bearing the inner psychical world. In the second part, pregnancy’s resistance to adolescent processes are dealt with through the novelties of the pubertaire and narcissitic issues. In the third part, we present the treatment of a pregnant adolescent and her family within the setting of a multidisciplinary parenthood support network.
Archives par mot-clé : Subjectivation
Arnaldo Novelletto : adolescence and psychoanalysis, confrontation between theoretical models and clinical strategies.
The author deals with the ongoing debate over applying psychoanalysis to adolescent patients. He presents and discusses different theses about the two types of therapeutic intervention, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
Odile Falque : the mysticism of everyday life with etty hillesum
Mysticism : one can’t talk about it, and one can’t not talk about it. It consists of remaining in the illusion and the tension of paradoxes, particularly life-death, through a revisiting of the adolescent processes that Etty Hillseum situates at the onset of puberty. She returns to the originary, and it is a matter of getting out of this. This is what is at stake in her encounter with her psychologist, Julius Spier, an encounter that was, first of all, eroticized, in transgression, afterwards idealized and sublimated, in the discovery all at once the capacity to be alone, to think, to dream, to pray, for both seekers after God.
The mystical experience would be rooted in enjoyment, in transgression and in death.
“ The mysticism of everyday life ” may be spoken of in the psychical economy of the subject in movements of libidinal hyperinvestment, of disinvestment and of re-investment in the reality of daily life, which brings renewed energy, for the deepening and widening of psychical and spiritual space, caring for others, the mission that must be accomplished and the witness that must be given.
Such was the path of Etty Hillesum, a mystic who remain “ on the march ” towards death, survival, as recounted in her diaries An Interrupted Life, between 1941 and 1943, from Amsterdam to Auschwitz.
Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°1, pp. 23-39.
François Richard : le processus d’adolescence à l’âge adulte : le cas de la femme léopard
À partir d’un cas de cure psychanalytique de jeune adulte, cet article cherche à cerner les caractéristiques du passage, au-delà de l’adolescence, vers la vie d’adulte. Il s’agit d’une patiente de structure hystérique comportant une dimension psychosomatique et une propension à l’agir. La cure permit le développement après-coup d’un processus d’élaboration du pubertaire jadis empêché. La façon dont la multiplicité des pulsions partielles prégénitales infantiles peut être ressaisie dans une synthèse génitale « polyphonique » est étudiée. La subjectivation adulte se nourrit de la proximité du sexuel infantile, la meilleure façon d’éviter une structuration adulte défensive et inauthentique serait donc de tolérer en soi tout une part d’enfance et d’adolescence.
Anne Bourgain : signature issues in adolescence
The signature is a complex act which partakes of the trace and of its erasure. Between mimicry and self-affirmation, it allows one to approach the question of the name in the adolescent. By extension, we will explore other modes of signature in adolescence, investigating the relevance of this designation: one can reasonably wonder if it is still a signature. Who signs in adolescence ? To what degree do the various ways of expression, which are often distancing practices, come to « sign » something of the subject ? Above all, this work tries to illustrate the way in which fantasies of self-foundation can both foster and hinder the work of subjectivation, and so doing, open, or not open, the passage.
Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°4, pp. 1023-1035.
Ferruccio Bianchi : the difficulty of becoming a woman : knowledge acquired from anorexic adolescent girls
The author considers that the difficulties the adolescent girl encounters on her way to becoming a woman are grave symptomatic manifestations of a process of becoming a woman which may be common to all female children. The future anorexic would already be established when a little girl, a system of false-self which reaches a crisis point at puberty. Anorexia, a counter-evolutionary process which entails a risk of psychical and physical death, is a form of psychopathology that also masks an unconscious desire for emancipation and subjectivation.
Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°4, pp. 959-975.
Nicole Calevoi: a tiger with the psychodrama : articulation between a psychotherapy and the psychodrama
Our reflection relates to the articulation between individual psychotherapy and psychodrama. It explores the transference and the appropriateness of psychical work involving several speakers when the process is bogged down in the face-to-face.
Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°1, pp. 91-98
Solène Aubertin, Marion Haza : autistic, adolescent and virtual temporalities : where three worlds meet
The virtual is often criticized as a new addictive substance for adolescents. Here we will take the point of view according to which this tool fosters the elaboration of depressive capacity before their is a playing of the « I » (mise en je) in the real. Screen and body of the subject, the computer would be a first place of symbolization, on the way to genuine subjectivation. Leading to another space and another time, the virtual first allows one to approach in a different way the issue of temporality in its relation to loss. Since loss of the object engenders the « I », how might the virtual be another place where absence can be appropriated ? How can it help in the movement from intemporality to atemporality ? This idea will be illustrated by the case of an autistic youth as an archetype of the issue of loss and the passage from the imaginary to the real.
Adolescence, 2013, T. 31, n°2, pp. 417-427.
Paola Carbone : heroes et adolescents. a matter of life and death
This article will try to answer two questions : who is « the hero » ? And what is the relationship between the heroic and adolescence ? In order to find heroes in their original essence, the author turns to the Iliad and the Odyssey, and notices some fundamental characteristics which show that, deep down, the mission of the hero and the mission of the adolescent are one in the same. The two poems organized around narrative dimensions of siege and voyage represent rather well the lines followed by the adolescent experience. The paper turns on four interlinking themes in two dialectical pairs : Prehistory and History, the One and the Double, The Circle and the Ellipse, Life and Death.
From this perspective, the myth of the hero may be seen as the means by which it is possible to attempt a secular confrontation with death, a confrontation which paradoxically represents one of the cardinal points of the adolescent process.
Adolescence, 2013, T. 31, n°2, pp. 345-366.
Bernard Penot : travailler psychanalytiquement à plusieurs : la reprise d’un temps premier du processus subjectivant.
Un travail psychanalytique à plusieurs est indiqué pour traiter cette forme particulière de transfert qui survient régulièrement dans le traitement institutionnel de jeunes patients souffrant de troubles psychotiques ou d’une pathologie de comportement (cas limites). Le degré d’aliénation est alors tel en effet que la répétition va tendre à être induite dans l’autre – le thérapeute en l’occurrence – en l’absence d’un fantasme constitué dans certains secteurs du psychisme du patient. Tout se passe comme si la restitution (Freud, 1937) et l’appropriation subjective de ces éléments par le patient nécessitaient un détour dans l’espace psychique des soignants (de façon souvent éprouvante pour ceux-ci), les obligeant dès lors à élaborer avant tout ces données subjectives entre eux.