This document explores the complexities of adolescence, discussing the challenges of detachment from parental authority, identity formation, and the impact of traumatic experiences on the adolescent process.
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[...] Signs of a need for detachment from parents? The adolescent finds himself in the ambivalence of appropriating his body while accepting or not that it is changing, at the same time as he is psychologically immersed in new movements of identifications and disidentifications vis-à-vis parental figures, reflecting a sometimes paradoxical family problem between dependence and independence, and detachment and attachment. The psychological, biological, and social balance is therefore often attacked during adolescence by the upheavals that come to respond to the adolescent's paradoxical desires. [...]
[...] The transition to action will then 'resolve' (or resolve itself) the problem of elaboration by a symbolic manifestation of trying to put an end to these adolescent days . Conclusion The transition to action seems to leave room for a problem of elaborating the discourse through traumatic experiences that do not find words, representations, or meaning . The traumatic process then blocks the adolescent process and the narcissistic withdrawal sometimes reflects the impossibility of language to manifest what the adolescent lives in his interiority. [...]
[...] Thus, adolescence is the moment where certain unresolved infantile conflicts actualize themselves. The idea of this chapter, beyond understanding what is at play in adolescence, is to understand also the links between the complexity of the adolescent process and the transition to action. The hypothesis being that the transition to action would come to translate what language seems unable to express during the metamorphosis or anamorphosis of adolescence. To emancipate oneself, be independent and autonomous, feel free and oneself, choose and no longer play only the role of son or daughter of one's parents, is this not the dream of all adolescents? [...]
[...] It is possible to conceptualize the Ego by three axes, topique6, dynamic7 and economic8. The role of the superego is comparable to that of a judge or censor with regard to the ego. Furthermore, Freud sees in moral consciousness, self-observation, the formation of ideals, functions of the superego. Thus, the superego is defined as the heir of the Oedipus complex by constituting itself through the internalization of parental demands and prohibitions. The ideal ego is the instance of the personality resulting from the crossing between narcissism, that is to say, the idealization of the ego and identifications with parental figures. [...]
[...] At the same time as the reactualization of the Oedipus complex, the adolescent changes the psychological world, and finds himself having to change the world through the responsibilities he will adopt. A turning point in existence, adolescence seems full of promises even in the case where the transition to action is at stake. Bibliography : Chabert, C. (1999). The transition to action, an attempt at figuration? In: International Society for Adolescent Psychiatry ed., Personality Disorders. Behavioral Disorders (pp. 57-62). Paris : Éditions GREUPP. https://doi.org/10.3917/greu.isap.1999.01.0057 Ducousso-Lacaze, A. [...]
