A propósito da síntese da identidade na adolescência

Abstract

The synthesis of identity during adolescence implies the identification to parental functions, without excluding the infantile parts of the self in their dependence. All the Identification process in this marked by a bigger or smaller persecutory and depressive anxiety, according to the emotional tones, more strongly printing the relations of infantile dependency. The child swings between recognizing it self small and dependent and compensatory plantasis of arrogant and omnipotent character. During puberty, body maturing desynchroners of psychic maturing, stresses this swing. By projective identification in the peer group and other relations, the adolescent tests the quality and consistence of this introjects and still swings between agoraphobic anxieties, as he feels threatened by identity diffusion and claustrophobic anxieties in the fear of remaining for ever a prisoner of the family container, felt too small for his identity expansion. Illustrating this swing with Lewis Carrol’s Alice’s adventures in Wonderland and a few clinical vignettes the author stresses also the importance of this movements in the understanding of patients, whose self remains confused with internal objects on in cases, where the introjected quality of infantile relationships is so unbearable, that in place of an harmonious synthesis, they maintain an exclusion of the meedy and infantile parts of their self.