Abstract

BERMUDEZ, Edgar Alfonso Acuña. Clinical characteristics in adolescents according to the dynamic and psychoanalytical approach. Tempo psicanal. [online]. 2021, vol.53, n.2, pp. 264-292. ISSN 0101-4838.

In general terms, adolescence extends from the moment of sexual maturity to the age at which independence is legally ensured from the authority of the adult. The passage through the adolescent period is somewhat messy and never in a straight line. Indeed, the attainment of the goals in mental life that characterize the different phases of the adolescence period are often contradictory in their direction and qualitatively heterogeneous; that is, this progression, digression and regression alternate in evidence, since they temporarily understand antagonistic goals. In relation to the choice of adolescent object, the mental and physical state that is generally associated with adolescence (both with early adolescence and with adolescence itself) has very different qualities than the pre-adolescent phase. The stage of the representation of body image in adolescence is important, since it is at this stage where the adolescent is faced with physical changes (growth of sexual organs, increased hormonal activity, reproductive capacity, among others), changes intellectual or emotional (ability to make judgments of their own value, etc.) and three crises: identity, authority and sexual, fundamental aspects that influence the perception of your body. During adolescence proper, there is a decisive shift towards heterosexuality and a final and irreversible renunciation of the incestuous object.

Keywords : Adolescence; psychoanalysis; crisis; choice of object; impulses; genitality.

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