Abstract

ARAUJO, Marlene Silveira et al. About sexual drives in today's youngsters: vicissitudes from latency period to adolescence. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2014, vol.48, n.3, pp. 143-151. ISSN 0486-641X.

In this paper, the authors discuss the influence of today's culture on the processes of development of the latency period and adolescence. They suggest that there are non-elaborated narcissistic components in the parents which interfere in the child's Oedipal elaboration, raising difficulties in their insertion in a triangular world. This also disturbs the passage of the children through the latency period, a phase of development in which the repressive process should be consolidated and which culminates with the structuring of the superego. These aspects, together with characteristics of contemporary culture, in which differences among genders and generations fade away, and there is a disbelief in authority, strengthen the fantasy of having an omnipotent control of the world. Considering all these aspects, the contemporary clinic evidences that today's adolescents face greater difficulties when dealing with the complexity of their conflicts, the elaboration of which will allow an adequate entrance into the adult world.

Keywords : adolescence; latency period; contemporaneity; development.

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