Adolescents, adolescents: reflections on their sex life today

everyone agrees to consider that during the last fifty years, the age at which boys and girls had their first sexual relations is significantly lowered. Some have argued that this change of behavior was the result of an earlier physical sexual maturation. This is very unlikely inasmuch as the change in maturity dates back to a hundred years. This change would not it be more related to social change and its psychological repercussions in the psyche?


Today as yesterday, in the analytical treatment in adolescence, issues concerning sexual life are not so easily addressed as one might think. Obviously asymmetry and the age, especially in a number of cases, sex between therapist and adolescents are not foreign. The choice and arrangement of fantasies and acts on this issue leaves little room for choice and arrangement of words.

Sexuality in adolescence is caught in a double frame: relationship with others as it switches between contingency and necessity, as relation to itself it can not be conceived without the recognition of the other as other that is to say, as limit ourselves to the realization of his desires and thus its incompleteness. It is the psychotherapist, analyst adolescents, perceive this double frame. At the level of the psyche, behavior changes seen in today's teens about their sexual life leads to refer to two paths that sexuality in adolescence evoke: the one who could conceptualize as a sexuality "neurotic" teenager, both oedipal conflictuality infiltrates the implementation of this sexuality and one that could be considered a sexuality "limit", as the current tender and sexual current is cleaved.




Sexuality "neurotic" in adolescence refers to the broad and complex field of repression, sexual inhibition or, more broadly, the anguish any questions revolving around sexuality arouses some. The task of the analyst is well then to allow the teenager to lift the painful inhibitions, soothe anxiety, to put into words, choose words and to arrange the words aroused any representation regarding sexuality the teenager spontaneously addresses with restraint, modesty and inhibition.

In the case of sexuality "limit", the task of the analyst seems to me much of the register of analysis of the problem of addiction, the splitting of the ego, denial of psychological issues and act rather the "reflective function" in the proper sense. This sexuality "limit" can be defined in the manner of Charles Baudelaire: "Under the lash of pleasure, without executioner thank you." It is also necessary here to distinguish between two situations: that of adolescents for whom this mode of sexual fulfillment is pleasurable repeated where "object" is interchangeable and that no real pleasure in which the repetition of the sexual act seems not only lacking fun but empty object and representation

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