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GISLENE, Jardim. Adolescence: from the collective myth to the individual myth. Imaginario [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.11, pp. 35-46. ISSN 1413-666X.

This article deals with the relation between culture and subject in the adolescence through a conception of psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex, as a structure. Adolescence is treated as a psychic operation which the subject comes across the phantasmal scene reconstruction due to the Oedipus complex. The strengthened of the social bond in the adolescence is seen as a consequence of the search of subject for new object relations that stimulate particular forms of psychopathologic symptoms.

Palavras-chave : Adolescence; Psychoanalysis; Familiar myth; Oedipus complex; Social bond.