This book deals with specific aspects of psychic functioning and development in adolescence. It offers a conspectus of present-day psychoanalytic understanding of the process of adolescence and its vicissitudes. The book is helpful for those interested in the field of adolescent psychoanalysis.
Autorentext
Ladame, Francois
Zusammenfassung
This collection of classic and contemporary essays makes a major contribution to the reassessment of psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adults.Contributors: Peter Blos, Raymond Cahn, Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud, Philippe Gutton, Evelyne Kestemberg, Francois Ladame, Moses Laufer, Jean Lampl-de Groot, Maja Perret-Catipovic
Inhalt
Preface -- Adolescence and psychoanalysis: the story of the history -- The transformations of puberty -- Adolescence -- On adolescence -- The second individuation process of adolescence -- A note on the crisis of adolescence: from disappointment to conquest -- The central masturbation fantasy, the final sexual organization, and adolescence -- The pubertal, its sources and fate -- The process of becoming-a-subject in adolescence -- Normality and pathology in adolescence