AUXILIADORA MOTTA BARRETO, Maria    MARIA JOSE AIELLO-VAISBERG, Tânia. Becoming adult in provincial adolescents’collective imaginary. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) []. 2010, 16, 2, pp.310-329. ISSN 1677-1168.

This paper is an account of a psychoanalytical inquiry into provincial adolescents’ collective imaginary concerning their life phase and the exit from their parents’ home. The research was organized as a collective therapeutic consultation with six young people, aged between fifteen and twenty-one, using the drawing-story procedure as a theme. The psychoanalytical approach of the clinical material allowed the detection of the following unconscious psychological-existential fields: “fusions and confusions”, “a parallel world”, “negative vision of the future” and “choices”. The study indicates the necessity of psychological prevention and intervention measures that can contribute to the adolescents’ entrance into a process of re-appropriation of their own destiny and autonomy

: adolescence; collective imaginary; drawing-story procedure with a theme; psychoanalysis; D. W. Winnicott.

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