Abstract
Unlock the complexities of adolescence with insights into body attacks, anorexia, and bulimia. Discover how self-aggressive behaviors relate to identity formation, transgenerational influences, and the struggle for autonomy. Explore the multidisciplinary approaches to understanding and addressing these issues, from psychoanalytic perspectives to the critical role of the analyst in transforming bodily experiences into thought. Dive into the latest research on the psychological dynamics driving these behaviors and the path to recovery, offering a deeper understanding of the adolescent psyche and its intricate relationship with the body.
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[...] At adolescence we know that young people struggle to verbalize their interiority and thus it is their body that lets itself be heard by the analyst. And the analyst must then transform the bodily experiences into words since the work of the psychoanalyst goes from the body to thought, from the Ego-skin to the thinking Ego according to Anzieu, or in an empiricist way: nothing appears in the mind without having been previously felt. Thus, in the clinic of adolescence, the analyst speaks as much with the adolescent's psyche and his unconscious as with what his body says, and notably the attacks he receives. [...]
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[...] That is to say, we start from the assumption that the repetition during the transfer in the adolescent, and in our case the adolescent, differs from a transfer of analyst to adult, since the pathological or non-pathological signs during adolescence seem to be more silent, approaching then more of an addiction model (in the sense of 'slave a pulsional model, where the subject 'hides' its conflicts, its signs and itself replies to himself The identified problem seems to be the silence, the unspoken, the withdrawal into oneself, the internalization of certain traumas in adolescents . A silent reconstruction takes place in the best of cases, and a destruction that anchors itself in time is just as silent in the worst . Isolation in the fantasizing activity is typical of the adolescent process, but also nourishes guilt and therefore shyness. It is a question of guilt in the fantasy, because the idea of transgression crosses the fantasizing life of the adolescent subject who lives alone in his daydreams. [...]
[...] Body Attacks in Adolescence The skin is the source, the place and the model of pleasure. Anzieu Introduction Body attacks in adolescence are common, and we will therefore address the issue of scarification, anorexia, and bulimia in this chapter in order to identify what is problematic and what makes sense in these self-aggressive physical attacks. It seems important at first to distinguish adolescence from puberty, or from pubertaire as Philippe Gutton calls it, which is for him the psychic equivalent of puberty, the first time when there is disorganization of the psychic balance, and the second as a time of passage, adolescence is among other things ruptures and passages, a rupture that fixes in time when there is pathology. [...]
