"Explore the profound psychological impact of a maternal figure's suicide on adolescents. Discover how this traumatic event affects their identity, narcissism, and mourning process, and learn about the complex interplay between grief, guilt, and the struggle to reappropriate their thoughts and body. Understand the critical role of the adolescent process in coping with loss and the therapeutic approaches that can help."
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[...] (1999). Affliction : Monographie de la revue Adolescence. Éditions GREUPP. https://doi.org/10.3917/greu.gutto.1999.01 Haza, M. (2019). Adolescent Scarifications: Archaic Wounds in Search of Meaning. Psychotherapies 141-147. https://doi.org/10.3917/psys.193.0141 Jeammet, P., Bochereau, D. (2007). [...]
[...] The role of the clinical psychologist is then to establish a space for speech and silence, which leaves room for the adolescent's discourse, allowing them to think and symbolize the traumatic experience of their mother's death. Other structures that concern more the reception and orientation of adolescents and their family are precisely designed as the university psychological welcome offices (Bapu), student-lycee relays young health spaces (ESJ) and certain adolescent houses are designed less for care than for welcoming and orienting adolescents and their family.19 Care is not always enough for the adolescent's psychic life to regain its vibrant colors. [...]
[...] (2011). Maternal Foundations of Psychic Life. French Psychoanalytic Review 1449-1488. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfp.755.1449 Chabert, C. (2024). Where are the Mothers: The Places and Moments of the Maternal. The PSY Notebook 4-4. https://www.cairn.info/revue--2024-2-page-4.htm. Estellon, V. [...]
[...] The stakes of the adolescent process are therefore at the heart of the pulsional entanglement and the work of mourning in the face of the traumatic experience caused by the mother's suicide. Haza declines three organizing axes of the psyche: the Oedipus complex, narcissism, and the elaboration of the loss of object6. Haza proposes a conception of death and the construction of its psychological representation articulated to that of suicide and its repercussions in terms of the process of elaboration and psychological work.7 Let us recall that the aim of this chapter is to show the complex and singular repercussions of the loss of the mother on the ego of the adolescent subject in mourning. [...]
[...] Virgil, 4th Eclogue Introduction This chapter focuses on the psychological repercussions of the maternal figure's suicide on the adolescent process. And, it is part of the research on adolescent psychopathology. And more specifically on the psychological processes of adolescents confronted with the traumatic experience of the maternal figure's suicide. Suicide would be a curse according to mythology in Oedipus Rex? It would come after a guilt caused by the implementation of an incestuous scene with the mother and the murder of the father by Oedipus. [...]
