Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Marianna Ramos e. "Girly things": implications and attributions of feminine aspects on an adolescent's psychological care. J. psicanal. [online]. 2021, vol.54, n.100, pp. 115-128. ISSN 0103-5835.

The present article's main objective was to discuss implications and attributions of feminine aspects in the constitution of the mind and the expression of sexuality of a thirteen-year-old girl. For such, fragments of sessions held over one and a half years of psychoanalytical care were used. Parent's discourse comprehends femininity based on the concept of original absence, in which girl's characteristics are affirmed by what she lacks and cannot be, limiting more genuine possibilities of recognition. As for the patient, the refusal of femininity is discussed not as an ontological expression, but as a defensive one, in a way to find means of self existence in opposition to the parent's expectations. The article approaches aspects of "coming to be", particular to adolescence, that precedes the final definition of sexuality, interpreting the feminine as an individual construction that will come to qualify possibilities of expression of the self in continence and creativity.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; adolescence; gender; clinical psychology.

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