par Haesevoets, Yves
Référence Neuropsychiatrie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, 44, 3-4, page (103-107)
Publication Publié, 1996
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : For a long time, adolescence as a concept has been little or not invested by human sciences. The most confused period of human life is more than a mere transformation of psychological order. This theorization attempt aims to combine three ideas around adolescence: the violence of the desire, the incestuous temptation and the creative passion. Rite or initiation, adolescence is a period when violence and aggressivity, in their creative or destructive function, are both the motor and the ordeal of this existential and vital passage. Between passage, transition and rebirth, adolescence is above all a negociation with oneself, one's family and the others. At this age of one's life, the narcissistic passion devours the self representation and weakens the subject. Transformation of the body and the mind, reviviscence of the former (OEdipian) conflicts, quest for identity and autonomy, violence of the feelings and sexualization of the desire are inherent to this fundamental 'stage' of human life. The violence of the crisis coincides with that of the desire because the genuine stake of adolescence is to desire elsewhere, outside the OEdipian family. Alliance between the being of yesterday and that of to-morrow, crisis of passage and crisis of desire, adolescence is the mirror where the affecting image of a childhood which fades in order to re-emerge is reflected, just where the desire can open up.