Abstract

BESSET, Vera Lopes. Clinica with adolescents: what parent does it concern?. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.17, pp.86-95. ISSN 1677-1168.

In today’s world, knowledge is accredited only when it exists in the name of science. Many ‘experts’ make use of the media offering knowledge about everything and everyone - physicians, psychoanalysts, philosophers, educators and many others. When it concerns adolescents, one consequence of that, clearly detected in clinics, is the parents’ difficulties, as they feel unauthorized to take over the responsibility inherent to their role: trying to do the right thing, and fearing the loss of their children’s love, some give up the task of educating them, leaving it for the school to perform, though it is not endowed with the vocation or the competence to do so. At the same time, in the name of the children’s so-called independence, they end up by leaving them by themselves, totally neglected. The challenge to work with those parents is, with basis on our specific knowledge, that of psychoanalysis, making use of ‘learned ignorance’, and attributing knowledge (even if ‘supposed’) to the subject who speaks to us. That specific mode of assistance consists of guidance deprived of any pedagogical aim.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Adolescence; Subject.

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